Giorgio Agamben Quotes

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what ne...

Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

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Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt ...

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a d...

Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

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Born: 1942-04-22

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Giorgio Agamben (born 1942) is an Italian philosopher, and Professor at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He became famous for his investigations on the concepts of a "state of exception" and homo sacer. He is particularly critical of the United States' response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the use of terrorism as a permanent condition that legitimizes a "state of exception" as the dominant paradigm for governing in contemporary politics.More

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