Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction by Leland de la Durantaye. The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière: Creating Equality | Todd May. [i] Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 248. DIVGiorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. Leland Deladurantaye, Giorgio Agamben. Para aprofundar a aproximação às ideias do filósofo italiano, sugere-se Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction, de Luland de la Durantaye (Stanford University Press, 2009). The two books under review are Catherine Mills, The Philosophy of Agamben and Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben:A Critical Introduction. Mills' book is much shorter and Durantaye's weighs in at 453 pages. Instead of just making it available for download on the internet, since it is a very short text and the afterword by Leland de la Durantye (author of Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction, 2009) does not really add much to it. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction | Leland de la Durantaye. [2] Leland de la Durantaye, “Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor,” in Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009). In an interview almost ten years. In the McCarthy era of the 1950s, anti-Communism created an atmosphere of fear which allowed political actors to accrue greater powers over the American population. Departing from Agamben's Introducing the figure of the 'workless slave' into the scenario of the Master—Slave dialectic, the article demonstrates how the dialectic of history may be ended in a non-dialectical fashion through inoperative praxis that subtracts itself from the struggle for recognition. Relation to sovereign power and the concentration camps. The Politics of Aesthetics | Jacques Rancière. Download Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. The article presents a conception of the end of history, developed on the basis of Giorgio Agamben's critical engagement with Alexandre Kojève's reading of Hegel. See 268-272 for a good summary of the various critical responses to the book.