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Homo Sacer Series

10 primary works • 10 total works

Book I

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
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4.05 · 4621 Ratings · 178 Reviews · published 1994 · 51 editions
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most i…

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    Book II.1

    State of Exception
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    4.03     · 1819 Ratings · 157 Reviews · published 2003 · 39 editions
    Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush adm…

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    Book II.2

    Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
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    3.84     · 165 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 2015 · 25 editions
    We can no longer speak of a state of war in any tr…

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    Book II.3

    The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath
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    3.92     · 143 Ratings · 12 Reviews · 22 editions
    This book is a continuation of Giorgio Agamben's i…

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    Book II.4

    The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
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    3.96     · 185 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 2007 · 24 editions
    Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "…

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    Book II.5

    Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty
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    3.82     · 79 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2012 · 25 editions
    In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and…

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    Book III

    Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
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    4.12     · 945 Ratings · 63 Reviews · published 1998 · 28 editions
    “In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual com…

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    Book IV.1

    The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
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    3.99     · 212 Ratings · 21 Reviews · published 2011 · 22 editions
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused w…

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    Book IV.2

    The Use of Bodies
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    4.33     · 118 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2014 · 21 editions
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the semina…

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    Book I-IV

    The Omnibus Homo Sacer
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    4.53     · 30 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2018 · 6 editions
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal…

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