Politics as Activity
Praxis, Poiēsis, and Gesture in the Work of Giorgio Agamben
Gebonden Engels 2025 1e druk 9781032980751Samenvatting
Engaging with a fundamental question at the heart of the Western tradition of political thought, namely the question of political action, this book considers a broad range of issues, from resistance to political mobilization. It explores the nature of political activity by engaging with Giorgio Agamben and his key interlocutors such as Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Kojève. It offers new insights into the complexity of Agamben’s political thought and intervenes in contemporary debates on issues such as identity politics and protest movements.
A fresh contribution to Agamben scholarship and a rigorous reflection on one of the core political questions of the occidental tradition, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students from a broad range of subject areas, including political theory, political philosophy, political science, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and biopolitics.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
1.1 From sector to activity
1.2 Legacy: praxis and poiēsis
1.3 Structure of analysis
2 AGAMBEN’S CONCEPTUAL LOGIC
2.1 Potentiality
2.2 The taking place of language
2.3 The coming community
2.4 Gesture and pure means
2.5 Inoperativity
2.6 Manner and profanation
2.7 A different use of praxis and poiēsis
3 BEYOND POIĒSIS
3.1 Productive negativity
3.2 Agamben and the end of history
3.2.1 Animality and snobbery
3.2.2 The suspension of the dialectic
3.3 Production unraveled
4 BEYOND PRAXIS
4.1 The vulnerability of new beginnings
4.2 Stability in the realm of human affairs
4.3 The limits of founding: Arendt on Montesquieu and power
4.4 Principles of action
4.5 The contamination of praxis
4.6 Within praxis and poiēsis
5 GESTURES AND PERFORMATIVES
5.1 From institutional performatives to faith in the word: J.L. Austin and Agamben
5.2 Iterability versus pure performatives: Derrida, Butler, and Agamben
5.3 The Shadow of Derrida
6 CONCLUSIONS: ACTION UPON ACTION
6.1 Undoing the doing, unmaking the making
6.2 Being versus action: notes on identity politics
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Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan