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Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction Leland de la Durantaye
Publisher: Stanford University Press

This paper poses a question of its own, relating to whether the work of Giorgio Agamben suggests the possibility of a 'subtle revolution' that has the potential to ground a politics that is not based in a property or substance such as national identity, race or religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Departing from Agamben's Introducing the figure of the 'workless slave' into the scenario of the Master—Slave dialectic, the article demonstrates how the dialectic of history may be ended in a non-dialectical fashion through inoperative praxis that subtracts itself from the struggle for recognition. From now on, the history of metaphysics, stripped of critical archeology, shows a smooth continuity and reveals a sort of perverse anxiousness (according to Agamben) to play with and explore the operative principle of ethics and the concept of virtue as obligation and duty that medieval theology had granted it in heredity. Saggi e conferenze, (Neri Pozza 2005) e come mostra la migliore monografia che sia stata scritta su di lui, cioè il libro di Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben. I recently mentioned Leland de la Durantaye's new critical introduction to Giorgio Agamben – a book which I've found extremely valuable and insightful. See 268-272 for a good summary of the various critical responses to the book. [41] Ulrich Raulff and Giorgio Agamben, 'An Interview with Giorgio Agamben' (2004) 5 German LJ 609, 618; Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Stanford UP 2009) 218 – 9. The article presents a conception of the end of history, developed on the basis of Giorgio Agamben's critical engagement with Alexandre Kojève's reading of Hegel. ^ See Edmund Husserl, Psychological and transcendental phenomenology and the confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931) (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997). In an interview almost ten years. [i] Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 248. Leland Deladurantaye, Giorgio Agamben. Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Rendering absolute the duty of law would have been introduced by Pufendorf more than Hobbes (and this process concludes with Jean Dormat). Relation to sovereign power and the concentration camps.