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Giorgio Agamben

Subject: Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies

(1942–) Italianphilosopher best known for his concept of homo sacer. Agamben studied at the University of Rome, completing a doctorate on the political thought of Simone Weil. In ...

International Organization and Crime, and Corruption

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Frank G. Madsen

The International Studies Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2017
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics, Warfare and Defence
Length:
11,475 words
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...of the normal. In other words, the security regime considers reality and establishes several normal distributions – the norm is an interplay of differential normalities. Foucault's work had an enormous influence and it was taken up and continued by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Furthermore, Foucault's work and that of Giddens ( 1984 ) led to the development of a new branch of knowledge, surveillance studies , which is of core importance on an international level. Ultimately based on the philosophical findings of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon (...

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