Means Without End Notes on Politics

Name: Means Without End Notes on Politics
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ISBN: 9780816630363

ISBN-10: 0816630364

ISBN-13: 9780816630363

Edition: 2000

Authors: Giorgio Agamben, Cesare Casarino

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An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work 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 gestureOCoa politics of means without end.Among the topics Agamben takes up are the properly political paradigms of experience, as…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/12/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for hisï¿½Homo Sacerï¿½series.ï¿½He recently retired from theï¿½Universitï¿½ Iuav di Venezia.

Preface
Form-of-Life	p. 3
Beyond Human Rights	p. 15
What Is a People?	p. 29
What Is a Camp?	p. 37
Notes on Gesture	p. 49
Languages and Peoples	p. 63
Marginal Notes on Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle	p. 73
The Face	p. 91
Sovereign Police	p. 103
Notes on Politics	p. 109
In This Exile (Italian Diary, 1992-94)	p. 121
Translators' Notes	p. 143
Index	p. 147
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