The State of Exception

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead 1
5. Au Hasard 31
6. Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law 49
7. S/Citing the Camp 74
8. The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp 107
9. Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer 135
10. Spacing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben 145
11. Cutting the Branches for Akiba: Agamben’s Critique of Derrida 173
12. Linguistic Survival and Ethicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivation, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz 198
13. Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust 222
14. Law and Life 248
15. The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer 262
16. The State of Exception 284
17. Contributors 299
18. Index 301