Description:
These 12 essays give you new perspectives on how Agamben's work is increasingly relevant to economy and political action: the two ideas that frame the most pressing problems of global politics. New analyses of Agamben's recent work on government and his relationship to the revolutionary tradition opening up new ways of thinking about politics and critical theory in the post-financial crisis world.
Contributors: Daniel McLoughlin - Giorgio Agamben - Jason E. Smith - Jessica Whyte - Justin Clemens - Mathew Abbott - Miguel Vatter - Nicholas Heron - Sergei Prozorov - Simone Bignall - Steven DeCaroli
Brief description: Daniel McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University of New South Wales. He has published extensively on Agamben in journals including Angelaki, Theory & Event, Law and Critique and Law, Culture and the Humanities.
Review Quotes: This is an ambitious and comprehensive collection of essays that cover a neglected aspect of the work of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben. In addition, it focuses on the work that followed Homo Sacer and in which 'economy' and resistance increasingly figure. The text is aimed at final year and graduate students as well as specialists in the field. I think it offers an excellent range of essays accessible to the serious student as well as the specialist.--Michael Dillon, Lancaster University