Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben
	In 2009, during the presentation of Contributions à la guerre en cours
Born	22 April 1942 (age 82); Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea, 1965)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy; Philosophy of life
Main interests	Aesthetics; Political philosophy; Social philosophy
Notable ideas	Homo sacer; State of exception; Whatever singularity; Bare life; Auctoritas; Form-of-life; The zoe–bios distinction as the "fundamental categorial pair of Western politics"; The paradox of sovereignty

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Giorgio Agamben (/əˈɡæmbən/ ə-GAM-bən, Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo aˈɡamben]; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception,^[7] form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics (carried forth from the work of Michel Foucault) informs many of his writings.

^ David Kishik, The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics, Stanford University Press, 2012, pp. 3 and 45.
^ Homo Sacer, Stanford UP, 1998, p. 8.
^ The paradox "consists in the fact the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order." (Agamben, Homo Sacer, Stanford UP, 1998, p. 15)
^ Josephson-Storm, Jason (2017). The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6.
^ Adler, Anthony Curtis (2007). "The Intermedial Gesture: Agamben and Kommerell". Angelaki. 12 (3): 57–64: 59. doi:10.1080/09697250802041046. S2CID 143347650.
^ Josephson-Storm, Jason (2017). The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6.
^ Generally speaking, "state of exception" includes German Notstand, English state of emergency and others martial law. Agamben prefers using this term as it underlines the structure of ex-ception, which is simultaneously of inclusion and exclusion. "Ex-ception" can be opposed to the concept of "example" as developed by Immanuel Kant.

Giorgio Agamben
In 2009, during the presentation of Contributions à la guerre en cours
Born	(1942-04-22) 22 April 1942 (age 82) Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea, 1965)

Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Philosophy of life^[1]
Main interests	Aesthetics Political philosophy Social philosophy
Notable ideas	Homo sacer State of exception Whatever singularity Bare life Auctoritas Form-of-life The zoe–bios distinction as the "fundamental categorial pair of Western politics"^[2] The paradox of sovereignty^[3]