Agamben / Mandarini The Kingdom and the Glory

For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8047-8166-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agamben, Giorgio

Mandarini, Matteo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chiesa, Lorenzo

Mandarini, Matteo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and political theorist, teaches at the IUAV University in Venice and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School. His most recent works available in English translation from Stanford University Press include "What is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (2009), Nudities (2010), and The Sacrament of Language(2011).