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In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the Aristotelean distinction between potentiality and actuality, through to the impossibility of stating the existence of language in words and the form-of-life lived beyond all forms of law.Requiring no prior knowledge of the text Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why this series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century.
Contents
Introduction: A brief outline of the Homo Sacer series
Religious and political implications of the Homo Sacer projectThe fiction of sovereigntyOaths, language and the divine nameOn God and gods from the point of view of a modal ontologyAn ontology of demand
On Aristotle, actuality and potentialityAristotle and the problem of 'potency'Potentiality as a form of resistanceContemplation of the inappropriableDemand, memory and the place of thought
Glory and the significance of political theologyKingdom, government and sovereigntyThe desire for orderSovereign glory
Economy and its inoperativityThe bi-polar sovereignty of identitySubjects and the suspension of identityNew uses of the bodyMessianic or hypernomian
The border between the human and the animalThe fiction of the human beingThe problem of anthropogenesisAnthropogenesis and metaphysics
Paul and the messianic division of divisionA possible hermeneuticThe gesture of Pope Benedict XVITowards a negative dialecticDialectics at a standstillThe messianic and the future of dialectics
A form-of-life beyond the lawThe temporality of fashion and artWhat is a form-of-life?Form-of-life as end goalMystery and desire
Conclusions
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