Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben (1942) is one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy and radical political theory, and in recent years, his work has had a deep impact on contemporary scholarship in a number of disciplines in the Anglo-American intellectual world. He is best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics (borrowed from Michel Foucault) informs many of his writings. His influences include Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault.

Works

(in Italian unless noted otherwise)

• L'uomo senza contenuto, Milano: Rizzoli, 1970; 2nd ed., Macerata: Quodlibet, 1994.
  • The Man without Content, trans. Georgia Albert, 1999. (English)

• Stanze. La parola e il fantasma nella cultura occidentale, Torino: Einaudi, 1977.
  • Word and Phantasm in Western Culture, trans. Ronald L. Martinez, 1992. (English)

• Infanzia e storia. Distruzione dell’esperienza e origine della storia, Torino: Einaudi, 1978; new ed., Torino: Einaudi, 2010.
  • Infancy and History. The Destruction of Experience, trans. Liz Heron, Verso, 1993. (English)

• Il linguaggio e la morte. Un seminario sul luogo della negatività, Torino: Einaudi, 1982; 2008.
  • Language and Death: The Place of Negativity, trans. Karen E. Pinkus with Michael Hardt, University of Minnesota Press, 1991, PDF. (English)

• La comunità che viene, Turin: Einaudi, 1990, 77 pp.
  • The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, 105 pp. (English)
  • A comunidade que vem, trans. António Guerreiro, 1993. (Portuguese)
  • La comunidad que viene, trans. José L. Villacañas and Claudio La Rocca, 1996. (Spanish)

• Homo sacer. Il potere sovrano e la nuda vita, Torino: Einaudi, 1995, 225 pp.
  • Homo sacer, 1: le pouvoir souverain et la vie nue, trans. Marilène Raiola, Paris: Seuil, 1997. (French)
  • Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen, Stanford University Press, 1998, viii+199 pp. (English)
  • Homo sacer: el poder soberano y la nuda vida, trans. & notes Antonio Gimeno Cuspinera, Valencia: Pre-Textos, 1998, 268 pp. (Spanish)
  • Homo sacer, Berlin Suhrkamp, 1998. (German)
  • Homo Sacer I: o poder soberano e a vida nua, UMFG, 2002. (Portuguese)

• Mezzi senza fine. Note sulla politica, Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1996; 2008.
  • Means Without End: Notes on Politics, trans. Vincenzo Binetti and Cesate Casarino, University of Minnesota Press, 2000. (English)

• Image et mémoire, trans. Marco Dell’Omodarme, Suzanne Doppelt, Daniel Loayza and Gilles A. Tiberghien, Desclée de Brouwer; Paris: Hoëbeke 1998; repr. as Image et mémoire. Écrits sur l’image, la danse et le cinéma, 2nd ed., Paris 2004. Based on essays published previously and coferences. (French)

• Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy, ed., trans. & intro. Daniel Heller-Roazen, Stanford University Press, 1999. (English)

• Il tempo che resta. Un commento alla «Lettera ai romani», Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2000.

• Genius, Rome: Nottetempo, 2004.

• Il Regno e la Gloria. Per una genealogia teologica dell'economia e del governo (Homo Sacer 2), 2007.
  • The Kingdom and the Glory. For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government (Homo Sacer II, 2)', Stanford University Press, 2011. (English)

• Pilato e Gesù, Rome: Nottetempo, 2013.

• Stasis. La guerra civile come paradigma politico. Homo sacer II, 2, Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2015.
  • Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm, Werner Hamacher (editor), trans. Nicholas Heron, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. (English)
  • La guerre civile: pour une théorie politique de la stasis, trans. Joel Gayraud, Paris: Points, 2015. (French)

• Il fuoco e il racconto, Rome: Nottetempo, 2014.
  • Le Feu et le récit, trans. Martin Rueff, Paris: Rivages, 2015, 160 pp. (French)
  • The Fire and the Tale, trans. Lorenzo Chiesa, Stanford University Press, 2017. (English)

• Che cos'è la filosofia?, Macerata: Quodlibet, 2016.

Bibliographies

• Compiled by Jacopo D’Alonzo, March 2014.
• Compiled and annotated by Simon Gros, 2014.

Literature

• Matthew Calarco, Steven DeCaroli (eds.), Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
• Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. (English)
• Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray (eds.), The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life, 2009, PDF. (English)
• Henrik Gustafsson and Asbjørn Grønstad (eds.), Cinema and Agamben: ethics, biopolitics and the moving image, Bloomsbury, 2014. (English)

Links

• Scans of his 18 books
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Agamben