Agamben: Homo Sacer IV.2, Use of Bodies
Giorgio Agamben The Use of Bodies (Homo Sacer IV.2): destituent potential, inoperativity, form-of-life, and the closing arc of the Homo Sacer...
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Agamben: Homo Sacer IV.1, Highest Poverty
Giorgio Agamben The Highest Poverty (Homo Sacer IV.1): Franciscan rule, usus pauper, use versus ownership, canon law, and monasticism before The...
Agamben: Homo Sacer III, Remnants of Auschwitz
Giorgio Agamben The Remnants of Auschwitz (Homo Sacer III): Muselmänn, Primo Levi, testimony, shame, and the camp as paradigm of biopolitical...
Agamben: Homo Sacer II.5, Opus Dei (Liturgy)
Giorgio Agamben Opus Dei (Homo Sacer II.5): liturgy as work, Divine Office, priestly rubrics, and ritual operation as a model for bureaucratic...
Agamben: Homo Sacer II.4, Kingdom and the Glory
Giorgio Agamben The Kingdom and the Glory (Homo Sacer II.4): Trinity, oikonomia, acclamation, doxa, and Christian governance models in secular power.
Agamben: Homo Sacer II.3, Sacrament of Language
Giorgio Agamben The Sacrament of Language (Homo Sacer II.3): oath, performativity, liturgy, and speech-acts parallel to political exception and...
Agamben: Homo Sacer II.2, Civil War & Stasis
Giorgio Agamben Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Homo Sacer II.2): Greek stasis, Hobbes, Schmitt, and civil war as the repressed model of...
Agamben: Homo Sacer II.1, State of Exception
Giorgio Agamben State of Exception (Homo Sacer II.1): Carl Schmitt, sovereign decision, Roman iustitium, martial law, and emergency power in...
Agamben: Homo Sacer I, Bare Life & Biopolitics
Giorgio Agamben Homo Sacer I: bare life, homo sacer, biopolitics after Foucault, inclusive exclusion, sovereignty, and the camp as paradigm of...
Notes on Gadamer's Truth and Method
Summary of Gadamer's Truth and Method: hermeneutic circle, fusion of horizons, effective-historical consciousness, and language as universal medium.
Deleuze: Introduction to Difference and Repetition
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, introduction: repetition produces difference, critique of representation, and the dogmatic image of thought.
Vico: 114 Axioms for the New Science
Giambattista Vico’s Scienza Nuova axioms—ages of gods, heroes, and men; poetic wisdom; philology; and cyclical history as an alternative...
Schopenhauer's Critique of Kant (World as Will Appendix)
Structured summary of Schopenhauer’s appendix to The World as Will and Representation, vol. 1—where he defends, corrects, and completes Kant’s...