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Agamben, Giorgio (1942– ) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
(1942– ).
Philosopher who has published important studies on aesthetics. He graduated at Rome University with a thesis on
Aut-Aut
(1951– ). Philosophical and cultural review founded by Enzo Paci in Milan, currently published every two months and edited by Pier Aldo Rovatti. Noted for the high quality of its writing ...
bare life
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's concept for life that has been exposed to what he terms the structure of exception that constitutes contemporary biopower. The term originates in Agamben's ...
citizen
[Ge]A member of a politically or administratively defined community, having both rights and duties associated with that membership.
homo sacer
Translated literally as ‘sacred man’, this classical concept has attracted significant attention in contemporary critical theory because Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has devoted several books ...
imagined community
Benedict Anderson's definition of nation. In Imagined Communities (1983) Anderson argues that the nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited in scope and sovereign in ...
