The Agamben Dictionary

by Alex Murray, Jessica Whyte

Overview

Agamben's vocabulary is both expansive and idiosyncratic, with words such as 'infancy', 'gesture' and 'profanation' given specific and complex meanings that can bewilder the new reader. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, including Steven DeCaroli (Goucher College, Baltimore), Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne), Claire Colebrook (Penn State) and Steven DeCaroli (Goucher College, Baltimore) the 150 entries explain the key concepts in Agamben's work and his relationship with other thinkers, from Aristotle to Aby Warburg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748688630
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	06/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alex Murray is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter Jessica Whyte is Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the Monash University

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Lexicographer and the Sovereign, Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte; Entries A-Z; Bibliography; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors.

Editorial Reviews

This is not yet another dictionary listing keywords so as to provide quick access to a philosopher's work. Rather it is a dictionary that justifies its form by referring to Giorgio Agamben's own idea of language.

Alexander García Düttmann

This welcome resource will help students and readers of Giorgio Agamben appreciate the cohesion of the Italian thinker’s contribution to the history of philosophy. Agamben’s terminology was often in a language other than English, but the contributors herein have worked masterfully to provide English approximations and examples in English from Agamben’s writings ... Not only are the succinct, attributed entries a pleasure to read, they are also addictive, they are so well cross-referenced ... Summing Up: Highly recommended.

Choice - R. A. Champagne

This welcome resource will help students and readers of Giorgio Agamben appreciate the cohesion of the Italian thinker's contribution to the history of philosophy.... Highly recommended.

Choice