Whyte Catastrophe and Redemption

The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4854-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Offers a striking new reading of Agamben’s political thought and its implications for political action in the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whyte, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption

Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah
Flowers and Chains
Chapter Outline

1. The Politics of Life

Agamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern
Biopolitics and Sovereignty
Biopolitical Being
The Rights of Bare Life
Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity

2. Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception

The State of Exception
Carl Schmitt: The Paradox of Sovereignty
Presupposition and the Problem of Application
The State of “Nature”
Challenging the Normalization of the Exception?

3. If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz

The Remnant Shall Be Saved
The Danger
Where Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also

4. “I Would Prefer Not To”: Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law

The Law Is a Dry Canal
Aristotle and the Origins of Sovereignty
Past Contingent
Bartleby as Messiah?

5. A New Use: On Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics

Paying Pilgrimage to the Commodity Fetish
The Eclipse of Use and the “Dialectical Salvation of the Commodity”
A New Use for the Self: The Global Petty Bourgeoisie and the Coming Community
We Are Saved When We No Longer Want to Be

Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Whyte is Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the coeditor (with Alex Murray) of The Agamben Dictionary.