Means without End Agamben Giorgio
Means without End Agamben Giorgio An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence,…
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Means without End Agamben Giorgio
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. 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.
He begins by elaborating work on biopower begun by Foucault, returning the natural life of humans to the center of the polis and considering it as the He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture--a politics of means without end.Among the topics Agamben takes up are the "properly" political paradigms of experience, as well as those generally not viewed as political.