Giorgio Agamben

Catherine Mills

doi:10.1002/9781444396621.ch38

Giorgio Agamben

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	464-479
Number of pages	16
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9781444330786
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396621.ch38
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Agamben's account -of ethical responsibility
Agamben's contribution to social theory -biopolitics and the camps
Agamben's thesis in Homo Sacer -concentration camps, space of contemporary politics
Agamben, not obviously a theoretician of social -work influential in sociology
Giorgio Agamben, completing studies in Law and Philosophy -with a doctoral thesis on political thought of Simone Weil
Heidegger's seminars, late 1960s on Hegel and Heraclitus -as postdoctoral scholar, interest in language and poetics
Key problems, approach makes apparent -Hegel and Heidegger, a split within language
Messianic time, not external to or opposed to chronological time -contracting chronological time
Messianism, and conceptions of politics and ethics -notion of "happy life" or "form-of-life"
Philosophical context, language, experience and infancy -Agamben, history of metaphysics in Western philosophy

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