Stasis: Civil War As a Political Paradigm - Hardcover

Heron, Nicholas; Agamben, Giorgio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474401538 ISBN 13: 9781474401531

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Giorgio Agamben investigates the ongoing warfare that European state power has been waging against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself. The survival of the state is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben investigates first the classical Athenian theme of 'stasis' - the city's struggle against internal revolt. He then turns to a new reading of Hobbes' Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the early modern English Commonwealth's exposure to civil strife, division and revolution. At the heart of this book is the issue of state powers in their continuous decline - an issue that is key to the renewal of political, philosophical and legal thought.

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About the Author:

Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher, is one of the most renowned thinkers of our time. He taught at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy, and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. He previously taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series of publications interrogating the ideas of totalitarianism and biopolitics.

Nicholas Heron is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. He is the editor, with Justin Clemens and Alex Murray, ofThe Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and the author of a forthcoming monograph entitledLiturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474401538
• ISBN 13: 9781474401531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64