Means Without End: Notes on PoliticsIn this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and nature of politics itself. Bringing politics face-to-face with its own failures of consciousness and consequence, Agamben frames his analysis in terms of clear contemporary relevance. He proposes, in his characteristically allusive and intriguing way, a politics of gesture--a politics of means without end. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
FormofLife | 5 |
Beyond Human Rights | 7 |
What Is a People? | 1 |
What Is a Camp? | 9 |
Notes on Gesture | 3 |
Languages and Peoples | 7 |
Marginal Notes on Commentaries on the Society of the Spectacle | 7 |
The Face | 7 |
Sovereign Police | 9 |
Notes on Politics | 5 |
In This Exile Italian Diary 199294 | 7 |
Translators Notes | 7 |
Index | 1 |
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