Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte. The Agamben Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 219p. alk. paper, $40.00 (ISBN 9780748640584). LCCN 2011-431345. Born in 1942, Giorgio Agamben is considered a leading figure in philosophy and political theory, one who is known for challenging the Western political tradition. After completing his studies in law and philosophy, and earning his d...

Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte. The Agamben Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 219p. alk. paper, $40.00 (ISBN 9780748640584). LCCN 2011-431345. Born in 1942, Giorgio Agamben is considered a leading figure in philosophy and political theory, one who is known for challenging the Western political tradition. After completing his studies in law and philosophy, and earning his d...

Security finds its end in globalization: it implies the idea of a new planetary order which is in truth the worst of all disorders —Giorgio Agamben 2001

Bringing to light the difference between birth and nation, the refugee causes the secret presupposition of the political domain—bare life—to appear for an instant within that domain. In this sense, the refugee is truly ‘the man of rights,’ as Arendt suggests, the first and only real appearance of rights outside the fiction of the citizen that always covers them over. Yet this is precisely what ...

To render inoperative the machine that governs our conception of man will therefore mean … to risk ourselves in this emptiness: the suspension of suspension, Shabbat of both animal and man. (Agamben, The Open 92) In The Open, Giorgio Agamben diagnoses the history of both science and philosophy as part of what he calls the " anthropological machine " through which the human is created with and a...

IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POVERTY POLICY, the welfare mother is exposed to harsh treatment that is designed to maintain her participation in the low-wage labor force and, arguably, to discipline wage labor as a whole by restricting the alternatives to wage earning. I would contend that she is also being subjected to an extraordinarily invasive form of sexual regulation, ranging from teen pregnan...