STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Encounters in Law & Philosophy)

Agamben, Giorgio

ISBN 10: 1474403077 / ISBN 13: 9781474403078

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2015

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Title: STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (...

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

In this inaugural volume of the Edinburgh Encounters in Law and Philosophy series, Giorgio Agamben focuses upon the on-going warfare European state power has waged 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 first investigates the Athenian theme of 'Stasis' - the city's struggle against internal revolt - before turning to a new reading of Hobbes's Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the 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.

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, of The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and the author of a forthcoming monograph entitled Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology.