Agamben and Politics : A Critical Introduction / Sergie Prozorov
- Author:
- Prozorov, Sergie
- Published:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2014
- Physical Description:
- vii, 200 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.All's Well That Ends Well: Agamben's Comic Politics -- What is a Mood? -- Taking Leave of Tragedy -- Kafka and the Apparatuses of Tragedy -- Bucephalus -- The Limbo -- 2.The Sabbatical Animal: The Politics of Inoperativity -- The Worklessness of Man -- Inoperative Potentiality -- Glory -- Play and Profanation -- The Empty Throne -- Bartleby -- 3.Speaking the Unspeakable: Inoperative Language -- The Thing Itself -- The Voice -- Infancy -- Whatever Being -- Generic Universality -- The Thick of It -- 4.How to Play with the Law: Inoperative Statehood -- Biopolitics: Old or New? -- The Sovereign Ban -- State of Nature -- Abandoned Life -- Towards a Real State of Exception -- Form-of-Life -- 5.The Time of the End: Inoperative History -- The End of History Revisited -- The Workless Slave -- The Snob and the Messiah -- Destruction and Subtraction -- As Not -- Removing the Katechon -- 6.Outside of Being: Inoperative Humanity -- Problematising the Human -- The Anthropological Machine -- Boredom -- The Saved Night -- Being with Animals.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780748676217
074867621X
0748676201
9780748676200 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
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