Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things: On Method, and other books. Through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s he treated a wide range of topics, including aesthetics, literature, language, ontology, nihilism, and radical political thought. In recent years, his work has had a deep impact on contemporary scholarship in a number of disciplines in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Born in Rome in 1942, Agamben completed studies in Law and Philosophy with a doctoral thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil, and participated in Martin Heidegger’s seminars on Hegel and Heraclitus as a postdoctoral scholar. He rose to international prominence after the publication of Homo Sacer in 1995. Translated into English in 1998, the book’s analyses of law, life, and state power appeared uncannily prescient after the attacks on New York City and Washington, DC in September 2001, and the resultant shifts in the geopolitical landscape. Provoking a wave of scholarly interest in the philosopher’s work, the book also marked the beginning of a 20-year research project, which represents Agamben’s most important contribution to political philosophy.
Books
The Kingdom and the Garden
2019
Opus Dei
An Archaeology of Duty
2012
Nymphs
2004
The Coming Community
1990
Potentialities
Collected Essays in Philosophy
1999
The Open
Man and Animal
2002
What Is Real?
2016
State of Exception
2003
Where Are We Now?
The Epidemic as Politics
2020
Karman
A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture
2017
The Fire and the Tale
2014
The Kingdom and the Glory
For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
2007
Creation and Anarchy
The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism
2017
Language and Death
The Place of Negativity
1982
Hölderlin's Madness
Chronicle of a Dwelling Life 1806-1843
2021
Què vol dir ser contemporani?
2005
The Man Without Content
1970
The End of the Poem
Studies in Poetics
1996
Stasis
Civil War as a Political Paradigm
2015
The Adventure
1900
Remnants of Auschwitz
The Witness and the Archive
1998
When the House Burns Down
From the Dialect of Thought
2020
The Unspeakable Girl
The Myth and Mystery of Kore
2010
What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays
2006
Democracy in What State?
2009
Pilate and Jesus
2013
The Mystery of Evil
Benedict XVI and the End of Days
2013
The Signature of All Things
On Method
2008
Quel che ho visto, udito, appreso…
2022
Çivisi Çıkan Dünya
Covid-19 Salgını Üzerine Muhasebeler
2020
Homo Sacer
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
1994
The Church and the Kingdom
2010
Self-Portrait in the Studio
2017
Profanations
2005
What Is Philosophy?
2017
Nudities
2009
The Time That Remains
A Commentary On The Letter To The Romans
2000
Pulcinella
Or Entertainment for Children
2016
Means Without End
Notes on Politics
1995
The Use of Bodies
2014
The Sacrament of Language
1768
The Highest Poverty
Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
2011
Taste
1979
Infancy and History
The Destruction of Experience
1978
Studiolo
2019
