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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Mills Klappentext Giorgio Agamben has gained widespread popularity for his rethinking of radical politics and his approach to metaphysics and language. This work outlines Agamben's key concerns: metaphysics! language and potentiality! aesthetics and poetics! sovereignty! law and biopolitics! ethics and testimony! and his vision of post-historical humanity. Zusammenfassung Giorgio Agamben has gained widespread popularity for his rethinking of radical politics and his approach to metaphysics and language. This work outlines Agamben's key concerns: metaphysics, language and potentiality, aesthetics and poetics, sovereignty, law and biopolitics, ethics and testimony, and his vision of post-historical humanity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Metaphysics: negativity! potentiality and death 2. Aesthetics: Language! representation and the object 3. Politics: biopolitics! sovereignty and nihilism 4. Ethics: testimony! responsibility and the witness 5. Messianism: time! happiness and completed humanity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
