Description: A philosophical study of the testimony of the survivors of Auschwitz.
Brief description: Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things: On Method (the last three published by Zone Books), and other books.
Review Quotes: -- Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley