TY - CHAP
T1 - Giorgio Agamben
AU - Mills, Catherine
PY - 2011/4/20
Y1 - 2011/4/20
KW - Agamben's account -of ethical responsibility
KW - Agamben's contribution to social theory -biopolitics and the camps
KW - Agamben's thesis in Homo Sacer -concentration camps, space of contemporary politics
KW - Agamben, not obviously a theoretician of social -work influential in sociology
KW - Giorgio Agamben, completing studies in Law and Philosophy -with a doctoral thesis on political thought of Simone Weil
KW - Heidegger's seminars, late 1960s on Hegel and Heraclitus -as postdoctoral scholar, interest in language and poetics
KW - Key problems, approach makes apparent -Hegel and Heidegger, a split within language
KW - Messianic time, not external to or opposed to chronological time -contracting chronological time
KW - Messianism, and conceptions of politics and ethics -notion of "happy life" or "form-of-life"
KW - Philosophical context, language, experience and infancy -Agamben, history of metaphysics in Western philosophy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885811370&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/9781444396621.ch38
DO - 10.1002/9781444396621.ch38
M3 - Chapter (Book)
AN - SCOPUS:84885811370
SN - 9781444330786
VL - 1
SP - 464
EP - 479
BT - The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -