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: Agamben has undoubtedly been one of the most influential thinkers of the last decade or so. What I find particularly important in this book is the fact that it clearly delivers the sense that the Agambenian project is not over but, on the contrary, that the Italian philosopher, albeit in continuity with his past work, has opened new lines of thought that may help us 'thinking the present'. When reading the essays composing this volume, one is left with a clear feeling that the 'Agamben effect' and its related debates have moved on, well beyond the initial stages of the homo sacer project.--Claudio Minca, Wageningen University "Contemporary Political Theory"