The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and ...

This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this groundbreaking project.

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.

... homo sacer. While in the second edition of A. #5 The term homo sacer refers to an enigmatic archaic Roman.

Anarchism and Philosophy Catherine Malabou. 7 Agamben , Homo Sacer I , in The Omnibus Homo Sacer , p . 70 . 8 Agamben , Giorgio " Vers une théorie de la puissance destituante , " p . 1. [ CS translation ] 9 Agamben , Homo Sacer I , in ...

... homo sacer . The first thing to note about this “ sacred man ” is that he was not sacred in any reverential sense — in fact , he was far closer to the opposite . Homo sacer is a juridical term from archaic roman law designating an ...

... homo sacer , the man who can be killed with impunity but cannot be sacrificed . According to Agamben , the axis of the political stretches between sovereign and homo sacer : “ At the two extreme limits of the [ political ] order ...

... Homo Sacer is incomplete . For Life to suspend power , power must be articulated fully , not just in terms of power ... Homo Sacer , is not achieved for more than a decade after but , remarkably , it is achieved in the consid ...

... Homo Sacer is incomplete. For Life to suspend power, power must be articulated fully, not just in terms of power as ... Homo Sacer, is not achieved for more than a decade after but, remarkably, it is achieved in the consid- eration ...