Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series. His other books include The Church and the Kingdom and The Unspeakable Girl, also published by Seagull Books. Kevin McLaughlin is the Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres ... Read moreand professor of English, comparative literature, and German studies at Brown University. He is the author of two books: Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. He is also cotranslator of Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project. Amanda Minervini teaches Italian studies at Brown University. Show Less