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Giorgio Agamben | |
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 In 2009, during the presentation of Contributions à la guerre en cours | |
| Born | 22 April 1942 |
| Education | |
| Education | Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea, 1965) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Philosophy of life[1] |
| Main interests | Aesthetics Political philosophy Social philosophy |
| Notable ideas | Homo sacer State of exception Whatever singularity Bare life Auctoritas Form-of-life The zoe–bios distinction as the "fundamental categorial pair of Western politics"[2] The paradox of sovereignty[3] |
Giorgio Agamben (/əˈɡæmbən/ ə-GAM-bən; Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo aˈɡamben]; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception,[4] form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics (carried forth from the work of Michel Foucault) informs many of his writings.
- ^ David Kishik, The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics, Stanford University Press, 2012, pp. 3 and 45.
- ^ Homo Sacer, Stanford UP, 1998, p. 8.
- ^ The paradox "consists in the fact the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order." (Agamben, Homo Sacer, Stanford UP, 1998, p. 15)
- ^ Generally speaking, "state of exception" includes German Notstand, English state of emergency and others martial law. Agamben prefers using this term as it underlines the structure of ex-ception, which is simultaneously of inclusion and exclusion. "Ex-ception" can be opposed to the concept of "example" as developed by Immanuel Kant.