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Means Without End
副标题: Notes on Politics (Theory Out Of Bounds)
ISBN: 9780816630363
出版社: Univ Of Minnesota Press
出版年: 2000-10-13
页数: 154
定价: USD 19.50
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. A critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, this book builds on the previous work of the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture-a politics of means without end.
Among the topics Agamben takes up are the "properly" political paradigms of experience, as well as those generally not viewed as political. He begins by elaborating work on biopower begun by Foucault, returning the natural life of humans to the center of the polis and considering it as the very basis for politics. He then considers subjects such as the state of exception (the temporary suspension of the juridical order); the concentration camp (a zone of indifference between public and private and, at the same time, the secret matrix of the political space in which we live); the refugee, who, breaking the bond between the human and the citizen, moves from marginal status to the center of the crisis of the modern nation-state; and the sphere of pure means or gestures (those gestures that, remaining nothing more than means, liberate themselves from any relation to ends) as the proper sphere of politics. Attentive to the urgent demands of the political moment, as well as to the bankruptcy of political discourse, Agamben's work brings politics back to life, and life back to politics.
Theory Out of Bounds Series, volume 20
Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
作者简介
Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collge International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Language and Death (1991), Stanzas (1992), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Vincenzo Binetti is assistant professor of Romance languages and literature at the University of Michigan. Cesare Casarino teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
目录
Preface i x
PART I
Form-of-Life 3
Beyond IIllllan Rights 15
What Is a People? 29
What Is a Camp' 37
PART 11
Notes on Gesture 49
Ianguages and Peoples 63
Marginal Notes on Commentluies on the Society of
fhe fpedade 73
The Face 91
PART III
Sovereign Police 103
Notes 01 Politics 109
11 This lxile (Italian Diary. 1992-94) 121
Translators' Notes 143
Index 147
