Stasis
Civil War as a Political Paradigm
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis emerges) and later, in the work of Thomas Hobbes. It identifies civil war as the fundamental threshold of politicization in the West, an apparatus that over the course of history has alternately…
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Weitere Autoren: Heron, Nicholas (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-9732-0
- EAN: 9780804797320
- Produktnummer: 23011629
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'526 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Giorgio Agamben Translated by Nicholas Heron
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Civil War as a Political Paradigm
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