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)

• 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. (English)

• La comunità che viene, Torino: Einaudi, 1990.

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

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

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

• Il giorno del giudizio, Rome: Nottetempo.

• Genius, Rome: Nottetempo, 2004.

• Il Regno e la Gloria. Per una genealogia teologica dell'economia e del governo (Homo Sacer IL 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.

• La guerre civile: pour une théorie politique de la stasis, trans. Joel Gayraud, Paris: Points, 2015.

Bibliographies

• Compiled by Jacopo D’Alonzo, December 2013
• Compiled and annotated by Simon Gros, 2014.

Literature

• Matthew Calarco and 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)
• Henrik Gustafsson and Asbjørn Grønstad (eds.), Cinema and Agamben: ethics, biopolitics and the moving image, Bloomsbury, 2014. (English)

Links

• Scans of his 18 books