Table Of ContentAGAMBEN'S
PHILOSOPHICAL LINEAG·E
AGAMBEN'S
PHILOSOPHICAL
LINEAGE
Edited by Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani
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Contents
List of Abbreviations
Vlll
Introduction: Agamben as a Reader 1
Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani
Part 1 Primary Interlocutors
Aristotle
I. 15
Jussi Backman
2. Walter Benjamin 27
Carlo Salzani
3· Guy Debord 39
Dave Mesing
4· Michel Foucault 51
Vanessa Lemm
Martin Heidegger 63
5·
Mathew Abbott
6. Paul the Apostle 76
Ted Jennings
7· Carl Schmitt 87
Sergei Prozorov
Part TI Points of Reference
8. Hannah Arendt 101
John Grumley
Vi Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
9· Georges Bataille 1°9
Nadine Hartmann
10. Émile Benveniste 117
Henrik Wilberg
II. Dante Alighieri 125
Paolo Bartoloni
12. Gilles Deleuze 13 l
Claire Colebrook
13· Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 138
Alysia Garrison
14· Friedrich Holderlin 146
Henrik Wilberg
15· Franz Kafka 154
Anke Snoek
16. lmmanuel Kant 162
Susan Brophy
17· Fr iedrichNietzsche 171
Vanessa Lemm
18. Plato 178
Mika Ojakangas
19· Plotinus 186
Marten Bjork
20. Marquis de Sade 193
Christian Grünnagel
21. Baruch Spinoza 201
Jeffrey A. Bernstein
22. Aby Warburg 208
Adi Efal-Lautenschlager
Part ID Submerged Dialogues
23· Theodor W. Adorno 219
Colby Dickinson
24· Jacques Derrida 23°
Virgil W. Brower
Contents
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25· Sigmund Freud
Virgil W. Brower
26. Jacques Lacan
Frances L. Restuccia
27· Karl Marx
Jessica Whyte
28. Antonio Negri 272
Ingrid Diran
29· Gershom Scholem
Julia Ng
Simone Weil
3°·
Beatrice Marovich
Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
Adam Kotsko
Contributors
Index
Abbreviations
References to the work of Agamben are made parenthetically in the text
according to the following conventions.
Italian English translation
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