Giorgio Agamben - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures
HOMO SACER: A questioning of how radical subjectivity and the coming community can contribute to a paradigm of human existence (3 credits)
Giorgio Agamben, Ph.D.
Description: This course is dedicated to Agamben's philosophy. We will work through ideas of community and identity. The course will focus around the themes of solidarity in a post-identity world.
Objectives: Students shall gain a firm grasp on Agamben's philosophical texts and his position within current academic debates. Students will be expected to fully read all texts and come prepared to associate their current research within the context of Agamben's work.
Learning Outcomes: Students will have learned the major themes within Agamben's work. Students will be prepared to write critical analysis of Agamben's major works and to utilize his work for their dissertation projects. They will understand the relation between Agamben and his contemporaries as well as his historical influences. This course is essential to any student desiring an engagement with one of today's pre-eminent philosophers.
Required Readings and Assignments:
Agamben, Giorgio and Daniel Heller-Roazen (Editor and Translator). Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy. Stanford University Press. January 4, 2000. Paperback, 328 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0804732787. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Agamben, Giorgio and Jeff Fort (Translator). Profanations. Zone Books. November 30, 2007. Hardcover, 100 pages, Language English, ISBN: 189095182X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Agamben, Giorgio, Daniel Heller-Roazen (Translation). Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford University Press. Stanford, June 1998, Hardcover, Language English, ISBN: 0804732175. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Agamben, Giorgio and Luca di Santo (Translator) and Kevin Atell (Translator). The Signature of All Things: On Method. Zone Books. December 31, 2009. Hardcover, 150 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1890951986. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Recommended Readings and Assignments:
Agamben, Giorgio and Karen Pinkus (Translator) and Michael Hardt (Translator). Language and Death: The Place of Negativity (Theory and History of Literature). Univ Of Minnesota Press. September 10, 2006. Paperback, 136 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0816649235. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Agamben, Giorgio and Kevin Attell (Translator). State of Exception. University Of Chicago Press. January 15, 2005, Paperback, 104 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 0226009254. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Agamben, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. Zone Books. January 1, 2002, Reprint edition, Paperback, 176 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 189095117X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Agamben, Giorgio, Liz Heron (Translation). Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience. Verso Books. New York, December 1996, 256 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0860914704. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, or Amazon.fr. Paperback, ISBN: 0860916456. Buy it at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.