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Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben s Homo Sacer
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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on AngloAmerican political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the modern world and the ancient, politics inevitably involves a sovereign decision that bans some individuals from the political and human communities. For Agamben, the Nazi concentration campsin which some inmates are reduced to a form of living deathare not a political aberration but instead the place where this essential political decision about life most clearly reveals itself. Engaging specifically with Homo Sacer, the essays in this collection draw out and contend with the wideranging implications of Agambens radical and controversial interpretation of modern political life.The contributors analyze Agambens thought from the perspectives of political theory, philosophy, jurisprudence, and the history of law. They consider his work not only in relation to that of his major interlocutorsHannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heideggerbut also in relation to the thought of Plato, Pindar, Heraclitus, Descartes, Kafka, Bataille, and Derrida. The essayists approaches are varied, as are their ultimate evaluations of the cogency and accuracy of Agambens arguments. This volume also includes an original essay by Agamben in which he considers the relation of Benjamins Critique of Violence to Schmitts Political Theology. Politics, Metaphysics, and Death is a necessary, multifaceted exposition and evaluation of the thought of one of todays most important political theorists.Contributors: Giorgio Agamben, Andrew Benjamin, Peter Fitzpatrick, Anselm Haverkamp, Paul Hegarty, Andreas Kalyvas, Rainer Maria Kiesow , Catherine Mills, Andrew Norris, Adam Thurschwell, Erik Vogt, Thomas Carl Wall
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