A01=Mathew Abbott
Author_Mathew Abbott
Benjamin
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Giorgio Agamben
Martin Heidegger
poetic experience
political ontology
representation
Wittgenstein
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- ISBN 9780748684090
- Weight: 495g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What if we’ve been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben’s thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbot demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben’s work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben’s philosophy with Wittgenstein’s picture theory and Heidegger’s concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding – and potentially overcoming – the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle.
Mathew Abbott is Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University Australia. He completed his PhD at in philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has taught philosophy, film, aesthetics and poetry at Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. He researches modern European philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory and aesthetics.
