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Nudities by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing... -
The Adventure by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037594Author Giorgio AgambenFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Profanations by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951832Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
The Use of Bodies by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and... -
The Fire and the Tale by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the... -
Giorgio Agamben by Alex Murray
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.61Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to... -
State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $22.51Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist... -
What Is Philosophy? by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its... -
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most... -
The Sacrament of Language by Giorgio Agamben
Booksplease Price: $20.91Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of... -
Studiolo by Giorgio Agamben 9781803093680
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.98A brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings... -
Taste by Giorgio Agamben 9781803094489
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered... -
Nymphs Giorgio Agamben 9781803094434
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the author's devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary... -
From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical Theorists by Jonathan Simons
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.61In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each... -
The Sacrament of Language by Giorgio Agamben 9780745649719
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.37Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of... -
The Use of Bodies by Giorgio Agamben 9780804792349
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and... -
The Kingdom and the Garden by Giorgio Agamben 9781803093642
Booksplease Price: $17.96In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity's true nature. What happened to paradise after Adam... -
What Is Philosophy? by Giorgio Agamben 9781503602205
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.58In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its... -
Pilate and Jesus by Giorgio Agamben 9780804794541
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as... -
The Body of Europe by Giorgio Agamben 9791282216050
Booksplease Price: $7.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791282216050Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackImprint Berggruen PressPublisher Berggruen Press -
The Human Voice by Giorgio Agamben 9781803095417
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.90An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped history, politics, and thought. What does it mean to have a voice-and how does it... -
Giorgio Agamben by Alex Murray 9780415451680
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $108.08Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to... -
The Fire and the Tale by Giorgio Agamben 9780804798716
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.58What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the... -
What Is Fear? Giorgio Agamben 9781967751501
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751501Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
The Man Without Content by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual... -
What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben 9781503606203
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.58Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most... -
Coming Community by Giorgio Agamben 9780816622351
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.35Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition... -
Pulcinella: Or Entertainment for Children Giorgio Agamben 9780857425409
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $26.03The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of the distant past that inflect the culture around us... -
The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $83.71This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic... -
Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951177Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
Democracy in What State? by Giorgio Agamben 9780231152990
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.70"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with... -
Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life by Matthew Calarco
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.99Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory. The essays gathered together in this... -
The Body of Language: esperruquancluzelubelouzerirelu Giorgio Agamben 9781803094762
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.39An erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book explores how early modern authors broke linguistic boundaries,... -
Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the... -
Self-Portrait in the Studio Giorgio Agamben 9781803094656
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.54A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio-a familiar iconographic subject in the... -
The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben 9780804747387
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.15The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming-or has come-to a close? What... -
Language and Death: The Place of Negativity by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory... -
Democracy in What State? by Giorgio Agamben 9780231152983
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $76.73"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with... -
The Omnibus <i>Homo Sacer</i> by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $90.04Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering... -
Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction by Kevin Attell
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.95Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how...