The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life
Justin Clemens and Nicholas Heron
Abstract
Giorgio Agamben has emerged, in the past five years, as one of the most important continental philosophers. This burgeoning popularity of his work has largely been confined to a study of the homo sacer series. Yet these later ‘political’ works have their foundation in Agamben's earlier works on the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and literature. From a philosophy of language and linguistics that leads to a broader theory of representation, Agamben develops a critical theory that attempts to explore the hiatuses and paradoxes that govern discursive practice across a broad range of disciplin ... More
Keywords: Giorgio Agamben, homo sacer, philosophy of language, linguistics, representation, discursive practice, continental philosophy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748634620 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634620.001.0001 |
