Means Without End: Notes on Politics

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Means Without End: Notes on Politics is a collection of essays by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben that explores themes such as biopolitics, state power, and the nature of contemporary political life.

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instanceOf book
essay collection
author Giorgio Agamben
countryOfOrigin Italy
englishEditionPublicationDate 2000
genre critical theory
political philosophy
hasISBN 978-0816635117
hasPart “Beyond Human Rights”
“Notes on Politics”
“On the Limits of Violence”
“We Refugees”
influencedBy Martin Heidegger
Michel Foucault
Walter Benjamin
languageOfPublication English
Italian
mainTheme critique of modern political institutions
relation between life and law
transformation of citizenship in modern states
notableConcept critique of human rights discourse
politics beyond the nation-state
refugee as paradigm of political existence
originalLanguage Italian
partOf Giorgio Agamben's political philosophy corpus
philosophicalTradition continental philosophy
post-structuralism
publicationDate 1996
publisher Bollati Boringhieri
University of Minnesota Press
subject bare life
biopolitics
citizenship
contemporary politics
democracy
human rights
messianism
political subjectivity
refugees
sovereignty
state of exception
state power
violence
translator Cesare Casarino
Vincenzo Binetti

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Giorgio Agamben notableWork Means Without End: Notes on Politics
Means Without End: Notes on Politics hasPart “Notes on Politics”
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