Name: The Omnibus Homo Sacer (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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Author: Giorgio Agamben
ISBN: 9781503603059

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The Omnibus Homo Sacer (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

1336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

26.2 x 18.0 x 7.1 cm

Weight

2.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781503603059

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Omnibus Homo Sacer (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) "

Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse. This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this groundbreaking project. Each volume takes a seemingly obscure and outdated issue as its starting point--an enigmatic figure in Roman law, or medieval debates about God's management of creation, or theories about the origin of the oath--but is always guided by questions with urgent contemporary relevance. The Omnibus Homo Sacer includes: 1.Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 2.1.State of Exception 2.2.Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 2.3.The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath 2.4.The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Glory 2.5.Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty 3.Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive 4.1.The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life 4.2.The Use of Bodies

Giorgio Agamben

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Giorgio Agamben, nacido en Roma en 1942, es uno de los filósofos y teóricos políticos más influyentes de la era contemporánea. Estudió Derecho y Filosofía en la Universidad de Roma y participó en los prestigiosos seminarios de Martin Heidegger en Alemania.Su obra atraviesa la ontología, la estética, la lingüística y la teología, destacando por su profunda investigación sobre la biopolítica y el poder soberano. Su proyecto principal, Homo sacer, analiza cómo el Estado moderno reduce la vida humana a una mera "nuda vida" (vida desnuda) desprovista de derechos, expuesta al poder y sujeta a estados de excepción. Este marco conceptual le ha permitido criticar las democracias contemporáneas y los totalitarismos.A lo largo de su trayectoria, ha sido profesor en la Universidad IUAV de Venecia y en la European Graduate School (Suiza), además de director del Collège International de Philosophie de París.

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