Stasis

Civil War as a Political Paradigm

By:

Giorgio Agamben

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis emerges) and later, in the work of Thomas Hobbes. It identifies civil war as the fundamental threshold of politicization in the West, an apparatus that over the course of history has alternately allowed for the de-politicization of citizenship and the mobilization of the unpolitical. The arguments herein, first conceived of in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, have become ever more relevant now that we have entered the age of planetary civil war.

Author Biography:

Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is Pilate and Jesus (2014).

Release date NZ

September 24th, 2015

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Translated by Nicholas Heron

Pages

Series

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Dimensions

114x180x13

ISBN-13

9780804797313

Product ID

25759405

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