STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Encounters in Law & Philosophy) - Tapa blanda

Agamben, Giorgio

 
9781474403078: STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Encounters in Law & Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 1474403077 ISBN 13: 9781474403078
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Sinopsis

Giorgio Agamben investigates the ongoing warfare that European state power has been waging against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself. The survival of the state is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben investigates first the classical Athenian theme of ’stasis’ – the city’s struggle against internal revolt. He then turns to a new reading of Hobbes’ Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the early modern English Commonwealth’s exposure to civil strife, division and revolution. At the heart of this book is the issue of state powers in their continuous decline – an issue that is key to the renewal of political, philosophical and legal thought.

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Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, one of the most renowned thinkers of our time, taught at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. He previously taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series of publications interrogating the ideas of totalitarianism and biopolitics.

Nicholas Heron is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. He is the editor, with Justin Clemens and Alex Murray, of The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (EUP, 2008), and the author of a forthcoming monograph entitled Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology.

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ENCOUNTERS IN LAW AND PHILOSOPHYSERIES EDITORS: Thanos Zartaloudis (University of Kent) & Anton Schütz (Birkbeck College, University of London).This series interrogates, historically and theoretically, the encounters between philosophy and law. Each volume published takes a unique approach and challenges traditional approaches to law and philosophy.A new contribution to Agamben’s continuing genealogy of powerIn this inaugural volume of the Encounters in Law and Philosophy series, Giorgio Agamben focuses upon the on-going warfare European state power has waged against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself.The survival of the State is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben first investigates the Athenian theme of ‘Stasis’ – the city’s struggle against internal revolt – before turning to a new reading of Hobbes’s Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the commonwealth’s exposure to civil strife, division and revolution.At the heart of this book is the issue of state powers in their continuous decline – an issue that is key to the renewal of political, philosophical and legal thought.Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher and one of the most vigorous thinkers of our time. He is best known for his recent Homo Sacer series of publications interrogating power and biopolitics. He holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and his professorial career includes teaching at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy.Translator Nicholas Heron is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland.Cover image: www.shutterstock.comCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com

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Editorial
Edinburgh University Press
Año de publicación
2015
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ISBN 10 
1474403077
ISBN 13 
9781474403078
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Número de páginas
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