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Overview

Giorgio Agamben is affiliated with the Università Iuav di Venezia in Italy. Their research spans across the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a particular emphasis on sociology, political science, and philosophy.

Agamben's recent scholarly articles include:

  • ESTADO DE EXCEÇÃO, 2020, Revista ORG & DEMO
  • Giorgio Agamben: on health scare and the religion of science, 2020, Inscriptions
  • Destituent Potentiality and the Critique of Realization, 2023, South Atlantic Quarterly
  • The Work of Man, 2023, Versus
  • The "Dark Night" of Juan de la Cruz, 2022, PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Pierre Bourdıeu
  • Tereza Cristina Albieri Baraldi
  • Adam Kotsko
  • Inscriptions Editorial Team
  • Alberto Parisí

Notable venues where Agamben has frequently published are:

  • Versus
  • PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
  • Romanic Review
  • Revista ORG & DEMO

Agamben has an extensive record of book publications, particularly with Stanford University Press eBooks, contributing sixteen titles including:

  • Homo Sacer (2020)
  • "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (2020)
  • The Use of Bodies (2020)
  • The Highest Poverty (2020)
  • Stasis (2020)
  • Opus Dei (2020)
  • Pilate and Jesus (2020)
  • Creation and Anarchy (2020)
  • Karman (2020)
  • The Mystery of Evil (2020)
  • What Is Real? (2020)
  • What Is Philosophy? (2020)
  • The Kingdom and the Glory (2020)
  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer (2020)
  • The Fire and the Tale (2020)
  • Releasing the Image (2020)

Their publications also appear with other publishers, such as Verlag Barbara Budrich, Zone Books, Mohr Siebeck eBooks, and University of Ljubljana Press eBooks.

Agamben's primary fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these broader fields, the subfields they focus on include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Philosophy
  • Archeology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Literature and Literary Theory

The main topics of their research cover:

  • Political Theology and Sovereignty
  • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
  • Foucault, Power, and Ethics
  • Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
  • Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
  • Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
  • Social and Political Issues

Best Publications

  • State of Exception

    Giorgio Agamben

  • The State of Exception

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Means Without End: Notes on Politics

    Giorgio Agamben

  • The Open: Man and Animal

    Giorgio Agamben;Kevin Attell

  • The Coming Community

    Giorgio Agamben;Michael Hardt

  • What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays

    Giorgio Agamben;David Kishik;Stefan Pedatella

  • Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

    Giorgio Agamben;Daniel Heller-Roazen

  • La comunidad que viene

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Homo sacer. El poder soberano y la nuda vida.

    Giorgio Agamben

  • The time that remains : a commentary on the letter to the Romans

    Giorgio Agamben

  • The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Homo sacer : il potere sovrano e la nuda vita

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Homo sacer : o poder soberano e a vida nua

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Language and Death: The Place of Negativity

    Giorgio Agamben;Karen Pinkus;Michael Hardt

  • Homo sacer : die souveräne Macht und das nackte Leben

    Giorgio Agamben

  • The Signature of All Things: On Method

    Giorgio Agamben

  • The Use of Bodies

    Giorgio Agamben

  • Qu'est-ce qu'un dispositif?

    Giorgio Agamben;Martin Rueff

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière Paris 8 University
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze Paris 8 University
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek University of Ljubljana

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