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Giorgio Agamben

Born

in Rome, Italy

April 22, 1942

Genre

Political Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy

Influences

Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil ...more

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Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things: On Method, and other books. Through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s he treated a wide range of topics, including aesthetics, literature, language, ontology, nihilism, and radical political thought.

In recent years, his work has had a deep impact on contemporary scholarship in a number of disciplines in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Born in Rome in 1942, Agamben completed studies in Law and Philosophy with a doctoral thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil, and participated ...more

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	Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 4,983 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben, Kevin Attell (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 1,994 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben, Kevin Attell (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 1,154 ratings — published 2002 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive 4.11 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 1998 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays by Giorgio Agamben, David Kishik (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Stefan Pedatella (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 676 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Profanations by Giorgio Agamben, Jeff Fort (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 2005 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Means Without End: Notes on Politics 4.10 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Without Content by Giorgio Agamben, Georgia Albert (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 1970 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience by Giorgio Agamben, Liz Heron (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1978 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Homo Sacer (10 books)
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الإنسان الحرام 2.1 (1 book)
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الإنسان الحرام (1 book)
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الإنسان الحرام 2.2 (1 book)
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“Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.”
― Giorgio Agamben, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

tags: nostalgia, possibility, remembrance

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“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.”
― Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

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“...there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal. Those who shoulder the dreary mantle of sovereignty know that their turn may come to be branded a criminal by their colleagues. We certainly will not be the ones to complain. For the sovereign, who freely consented to donning the executioner's clothes, is now finally manifesting his originary kinship with the criminal. ”
― Giorgio Agamben, Means Without End: Notes on Politics

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