Agamben biography

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    Giorgio Agamben
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    Daniel McLoughlin
    • LAST REVIEWED: 26 July 2017
    • LAST MODIFIED: 26 July 2017
    • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780190221911-0042

  • Colebrook, Clare, and Jason Maxwell. Agamben. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2016.

    Emphasizes the relationship between Agamben’s political thought and his philosophy of language. Traverses almost the entirety of his corpus (from The Man without Content to Opus Dei) and reads him in relation to his philosophical influences, late-20th-century French theory, and critical Marxism. Foregrounds the central role of indifference in Agamben’s thought.

  • Deladurantaye, Leland. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

    Provides an excellent overview through a book-by-book account of Agamben’s work from The Man without Content through to State of Exception. A sophisticated account of Agamben that illuminates his philosophical influences. There is less focus on the

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    Giorgio Agamben (born1942) is an Italianphilosopher who teaches at the University of Verona. He also holds a professorship at the European Graduate School, teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy, and has held visiting appointments at several American universities. He became famous for his investigations on the concepts of state of exception and Homo sacer.

    Biography

    Agamben was educated at the University of Rome, where he wrote a thesis on the politicalthought of Simone Weil. Agamben participated in Martin Heidegger's Le Thor seminars (on Heraclitus and Hegel) in 1966 and 1968. In the seventies he worked primarily on linguistics, philology, poetics, and medievalist topics, where he began to elaborate his primary concerns, though without as yet inflecting them in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute, where he wro

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    Giorgio Agamben

    Italian philosopher (born 1942)

    Giorgio Agamben (ə-GAM-bən; Italian:[ˈdʒordʒoaˈɡamben]; born 22 April 1942) fryst vatten an Italianphilosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception,[7]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.

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    Agamben was educated at the University of Rome, where in 1965 he wrote an unpublished laurea thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil. Agamben participated in Martin Heidegger's Le Thor seminars (on Heraclitus and Hegel) in 1966 and 1968.[8] In the 1970s, he worked primarily on linguistics, philology, poetics, and topics in medieval culture. During this period, Agamben began to elaborate his primary concerns, although their political bearings were not yet made explicit. In 1974–1975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute, Un