Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law And The Uses Of Criticism Is A Thorough Engagement With The Thought Of The Influential Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It Explores Agamben's Work On Language, Ontology, Power, Law And Criticism From The 1970s To His Most Recent Publications. Introducing Agamben's Work To A Readership In Legal Theory, As Well As In The Humanities And Social Sciences More Generally, Thanos Zartaloudis Argues That An Adequate Understanding Of Agamben's Homo Sacer Project Requires An Attention To His Earlier Philosophical Writings On Language, Ontology, Power And Time. It Is Through This Attentive And Creative Analysis Of Agamben's Work That Zartaloudis Here Presents A Rethinking Of The Ideas Of Justice And Criticism.--jacket. Sacred Foundations : Mythologemes Of Law And Power -- Introductory Note -- The Alleged Sacramental Foundation Of (common) Law -- On The Dogma Of The King's Two Bodies -- The Distinction Of Absolute And Ordinary Powers -- Reorientation -- From Transcendental Sovereignty To Neo-governmentality : The Oikonomia Of Power -- Introductory Note -- A Genealogy Of Neo-governmentality: The Paradigm Of Oikonomia -- The Trinitarian Doctrine -- Providential Theodicy -- Government -- Kingdom And Glory -- Secular Sovereignty : A Gigantomachy Over A Void -- Introductory Note -- The Sovereign State And The Art Of Government -- Civil Of Legislative Science -- Commanding Consensus -- The Paradox Of Legal Sovereignty -- The Virtual State Of Exception -- A Gigantomachy Concerning A Void -- The Biopolitical Nomos Of Insignificant Lives -- Introductory Note -- The Paradigm Of The Homo Sacer -- The Production Of Bare Life As A Juridico-political Act -- Rethinking The Biopolitics Of Bare Life --^ The Condition Post-post-politica Of Survival -- Philosophical Archaeology, Historiography And Criticism -- The Sacrament Of Power And The Sacrament Of Language -- Introductory Note -- The Sacrament Of Language: The Paradigm Of Oaths -- The Language Of Mystery, The Mystery Of Language -- The Idea Of Language -- Locating The Place Of Negativity In Language -- From Essential Negativity To The Language Of Profanity: The Function Of Linguistic Shifters -- The Experience Of Potentiality -- Introductory Note -- Difficult Being: Thinking The Thing-itself Or On Being Without Presupposition -- 'language' Uncoupled From Quotation Marks -- The Motive Of Agamben's Thought -- The Languages Of Law And Philosophy: Humachination -- The Dogma Of Ends: The Absolving Absolute -- The Experience Of Power : Potentiality -- The Logic Of Contingency -- The Idea Of Justice -- Uncoupling The Ideas Of Law And Of Justice From The Dogma Of The Foundation -- Justice : The Irreparability Of The Profane --^ From The Messianic Aporia Of Law To The Euporia Of Justice -- The Idea Of Criticism: Pure Criticism. Thanos Zartaloudis. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [311]-326) And Index.