Agamben and law. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thanos Zartaloudis, University of Kent, UK.
• Editors: Zartaloudis, Thanos
• Contents: The fading memory of homo non sacer / Anton Schütz -- Homo sacer and the politics of indifference / William Watkin -- The rule of the norm and the political theology of "real life" in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben / Kirk Wetters -- No life is bare, the ordinary is exceptional : Giorgio Agamben and the question of political ontology / Mathew Abbott -- Boundary stones : Giorgio Agamben and the field of sovereignty / Steven DeCaroli -- Giorgio Agamben on security, government and the crisis of law / Daniel McLoughlin -- The ontology and politics of exception : reflections on the work of Giorgio Agamben / Bruno Gullì -- "The king reigns but he doesn't govern" : thinking sovereignty and government with Agamben, Foucault and Rousseau / Jessica Whyte -- Imperatives without imperator / Anton Schütz -- On justice / Thanos Zartaloudis -- The creature before the law / Mathew Abbott -- Playing with law : Agamben and Derrida on postjuridical justice / Catherine Mills -- The hyper-hermeneutic gesture of a subtle revolution / Tom Frost -- The threshold and the topos of the remnant : Giorgio Agamben / Paolo Bartoloni -- Passivity at work : a conversation on an element in the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben / Alice Lagaay and Juliane Schiffers -- Resistance, potentiality and the law : Deleuze and Agamben on "Bartleby" / Alexander Cooke -- In a messianic gesture : Agamben's Kafka / Carlo Salzani -- The curse of the law and the coming politics : on Agamben, Paul and the Jewish alternative / Adam Kotsko -- The ungovernable / Nicholas Heron -- Thinking the law with and against Luhmann, Legendre, Agamben / Anton Schütz -- In force without significance : Kantian nihilism and Agamben's Critique of law / Daniel McLoughlin -- Agamben, Arendt and human rights : bearing witness to the human / John Lechte and Saul Newman -- The mask and Agamben : the transitional juridical technics of legal relation / Connal Parsley -- Political life : Giorgio Agamben and the idea of authority / Steven DeCaroli -- Kafka's land surveyor K. : Agamben's anti-Muselmann / Boštjan Nedoh -- What is a destituent power? / Giorgio Agamben ; Stephanie Wakefield (trans.).
• Publisher Details: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 524 pages.)
• Subjects: 195; Law -- Philosophy; Law (Philosophical concept); Essays
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351577274; 1351577271
• Related ISBNs: 9781472428844; 1472428846
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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