The Use Of Bodies

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804798613
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use of Bodies written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology. Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer was one of the most influential works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of studies investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground while clarifying the stakes and implications of the project as a whole. The Use of Bodies comprises three major sections. The first uses Aristotle’s discussion of slavery as a starting point for radically rethinking notions of selfhood; the second calls for a complete reworking of Western ontology; and the third explores the enigmatic concept of “form-of-life,” which is in many ways the motivating force behind the entire Homo Sacer project. Interwoven between these major sections are shorter reflections on individual thinkers (Debord, Foucault, and Heidegger), while the epilogue pushes toward a new approach to political life that breaks with the destructive deadlocks of Western thought. The Use of Bodies represents a true masterwork by one of our greatest living philosophers.

Author : Christian Pfeiffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191085308
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Bodies written by Christian Pfeiffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus understood, has a pivotal role in Aristotle's natural philosophy. A theory of body is a presupposed in, e.g., Aristotle's account of the infinite, place, or action and passion, because their being bodies explains why things have a location or how they can act upon each other. The notion of body can be ranked among the central concepts for natural science which are discussed in Physics III-IV. The book is the first comprehensive and rigorous account of the features substances have in virtue of being bodies. It provides an analysis of the concept of three-dimensional magnitude and related notions like boundary, extension, contact, continuity, often comparing it to modern conceptions of it. Both the structural features and the ontological status of body is discussed. This makes it significant for scholars working on contemporary metaphysics and mereology because the concept of a material object is intimately tied to its spatial or topological properties.

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503603156
Total Pages : 1336 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Omnibus Homo Sacer written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse. This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this groundbreaking project. Each volume takes a seemingly obscure and outdated issue as its starting point—an enigmatic figure in Roman law, or medieval debates about God's management of creation, or theories about the origin of the oath—but is always guided by questions with urgent contemporary relevance. The Omnibus Homo Sacer includes: 1.Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 2.1.State of Exception 2.2.Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 2.3.The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath 2.4.The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Glory 2.5.Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty 3.Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive 4.1.The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life 4.2.The Use of Bodies

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360165X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fire and the Tale written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace. The ten essays brought together here cover works by figures ranging from Aristotle to Paul Klee and illustrate what urgently drives Agamben's current research. As is often the case with his writings, their especial focus is the mystery of literature, of reading and writing, and of language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethico-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power.

Author : Sadie Fields
Publisher : All Kinds of... S.
ISBN 13 : 9781857075601
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Kinds of Bodies written by Sadie Fields and published by All Kinds of... S.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like the way you look? Would you rather look like someone else? This delightful lift-the-flap book shows all kinds of faces and bodies to teach that no matter how we look on the outside, under the skin we are all the same and everyone is special. At the end is an informative lift-the-flap skeleton to hang on the wall.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Use of Human Cadavers in Automobile Crash Testing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264045481
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directory of Bodies of the OECD 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a guide to country participation in the various committees and working groups of the OECD, the IEA, and the NEA for the year 2008.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264179763
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directory of Bodies of the OECD 2012 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory provides official information on the mandates, dates of creation and durations of current mandates, membership and chairmanship of the OECD Council and its related committees, sub-committees, working groups and ad hoc groups.

Author : Adolphe Ganot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies written by Adolphe Ganot and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Serene Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350412104
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biopolitics as a System of Thought written by Serene Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this book examines how we arrived at this mode of being and asks how it could be that, while the material conditions of our lives have increasingly worsened, our capacities for effective political action, understood as the capacity for transforming our existing social relations, appear to be diminishing. Drawing from jurists and philosophers such as Pierre Legendre, Yan Thomas, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, Richards argues that biopolitics intervenes at the most minute level of our everyday lives. She argues that there are conceptual truths presupposed in the mode of biopolitics' functioning, for instance that life can be assigned a value for the purpose of intervention, abandonment, or death, which have implications for our politics. In exciting engagements with political movements such as the post-May 1968 Mouvement des travailleurs Arabes (MTA), Richards shows how demands to transform our system of social relations are undermined by institutional models that proffer to offer rights protection while simultaneously annihilating the living altogether. Through a reappraisal of law, governance and capital, Richards seeks to reconceptualise our collectivity of thought, arguing for a politics of destitution that could form the basis of a communism to come.