“the health emergency was being exaggerated”
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Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose work spans political theory, ontology, aesthetics, and literature. He is best known for developing the concept of homo sacer and exploring the relationship between sovereignty, legal authority, and what he calls 'bare life'. His writings draw on sources including Aristotle, Roman law, Christian theology, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Witt…
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culture · Italian philosopher (born 1942) · philosopher · writer · university teacher · poet lawyer · essayist · literary scholar · also Giorgio Agamben, Agamben
Born 22 April 1942 · Q311687
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2026· 7 entries
“What happened in the camps so exceeds (is outside of) the juridical concept of crime that the specific juridico-political structure in which those events took place is often simply omitted from consideration.”
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Infobae: Giorgio Agamben, filósofo italiano: “A los ojos de la autoridad –y quizá con razón– nada se parece más a un terrorista que el hombre ordinario"
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JSTOR Daily: The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life
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Clarin: Giorgio Agamben explora la frontera entre poesía y filosofía en ‘Estancias’
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Outlookindia: Giorgio Agamben
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Outlookindia: Our Elsewheres: Excerpt From Giorgio Agamben's 'Self-Portrait In The Studio'
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize (2021).
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2020· 2 entries
JSTOR Daily: Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Giorgio Agamben’s Coronavirus Cluelessness
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2019· 1 entry
Tagesspiegel: Giorgio Agamben in Berlin: Das Heilige und das Profane
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2017· 2 entries
Repubblica: Giorgio Agamben: "Il vero Karma dell'Occidente"
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These works were collected and published as The Omnibus Homo Sacer
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2016· 1 entry
EL PAÍS: Giorgio Agamben: “El ciudadano es para el Estado un terrorista virtual”
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2015· 1 entry
ZEIT: Giorgio Agamben: "Europa muss kollabieren"
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2013· 1 entry
“Qu'est-ce que le commandement?”
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Albertus-Magnus professorate (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
Libcom: On security and terror - Giorgio Agamben
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Awarded Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Refused to travel to the United States after new visa regulations required biometric fingerprinting, which he likened to practices of bodily registration used in twentieth century totalitarian regimes
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1998· 1 entry
“Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life”
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1990· 1 entry
And translated by longtime admirer Michael Hardt in 1993, Agamben describes the social and political manifestation of his philosophical thought
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1982· 1 entry
“God didn't die, he was transformed into money.”
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1981· 1 entry
Agamben discovered several important lost manuscripts by Benjamin in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
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1965· 1 entry
Wrote an unpublished laurea thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-04-22.
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1933· 1 entry
In a short article intending to define the fundamental concepts of national-socialism, Schmitt defines the Führung principle (sic
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