Author: Giorgio Agamben

An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philo...

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory a...

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory a...

What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its si...

The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of ...

A brief study of select Western art from Italys foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince wit...

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not j...

Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguist...

Giorgio Agamben''s Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of inte...