Infancy and History: On the Destructi...
Giorgio AgambenAgamben's profound and radical meditation on language and philosophy spans the opposition between nature and culture, the appearance of the unconscious and the difference between rituals and games.How and why did experience and knowl...
Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, G...
Giorgio AgambenWhat does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free ...
Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty
Giorgio AgambenIn this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through ...
Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing ...
Giorgio AgambenPontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Je...
The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and...
Giorgio AgambenIn 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of int...