The Agamben Dictionary

Edited by Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte

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Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4058-4
$40.00

August, 2011
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4059-1
Edinburgh University Press
$110.00

Agamben's vocabulary is both expansive and idiosyncratic, with words such as "infancy", "gesture" and "profanation" given specific and complex meanings that can bewilder the new reader. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, including Thanos Zartaloudis (Birkbeck, University of London), Kevin Attell (Cornell University) and Catherine Mills (The University of Sydney) the 150 entries explain the key concepts in Agamben's work and his relationship with other thinkers, from Aristotle to Aby Warburg.

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy
• Political Theory

About the Author

Alex Murray is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter.

Jessica Whyte is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University.

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