Jessica Whyte: Catastrophe and Redemption

Cover: 9781438448527 | Catastrophe and Redemption | The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben

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Challenging the prevalent account of Agamben as a pessimistic thinker, Catastrophe and Redemption proposes a reading of his political thought in which the redemptive element of his work is not a curious aside but instead is fundamental to his project. Jessica Whyte considers his critical account of contemporary politics-his argument that Western politics has been "biopolitics" since its inception, his critique of human rights, his argument that the state of exception is now the norm, and the paradigmatic significance he attributes to the concentration camp-and shows that it is in the midst of these catastrophes of the present that Agamben sees the possibility of a form of profane redemption. Whyte outlines the importance of potentiality in his attempt to formulate a new politics, examines his relation to Jewish and Christian strands of messianism, and interrogates the new forms of praxis that he situates within contemporary commodity culture, taking Agamben's thought as a call for the creation of new political forms.

Über den Autor

Jessica Whyte is Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the coeditor (with Alex Murray) of The Agamben Dictionary.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781438448527
ISBN-10:	143844852X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Whyte, Jessica
Hersteller:	SUNY Press SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Jessica Whyte
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.07.2014
Gewicht:	0,332 kg