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STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Giorgio Agamben
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Description for STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
Hardback. Translator(s): Heron, Nicholas. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
In this inaugural volume of the Edinburgh Encounters in Law and Philosophy series, Giorgio Agamben focuses upon the on-going warfare European state power has waged against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself. The survival of the State is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben first investigates the Athenian theme of 'Stasis' - the city's struggle against internal revolt - before turning to a new reading of Hobbes's Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the commonwealth's exposure to civil strife, division and revolution. At the heart of this book ... Read more
In this inaugural volume of the Edinburgh Encounters in Law and Philosophy series, Giorgio Agamben focuses upon the on-going warfare European state power has waged against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself. The survival of the State is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben first investigates the Athenian theme of 'Stasis' - the city's struggle against internal revolt - before turning to a new reading of Hobbes's Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the commonwealth's exposure to civil strife, division and revolution. At the heart of this book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474401531
SKU
V9781474401531
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99-10
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