The figure of this world : Agamben and the question of political ontology / Mathew Abbott.
What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? The work of the Italian Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben is usually read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Now Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought has been widely misunderstood. Instead, he shows t...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Question of Political Ontology
- 2. Poetic Experience of the World
- 3. Myth of the Earth
- 4. Unbearable
- 5. Creature before the Law
- 6. Animal for which Animality is an Issue
- 7. Understanding the Happy
- 8. Picture and its Captives
- 9. Passing of the Figure of This World.