Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

Agamben's genealogy of power in terms of political, philosophical and legal thought

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474403077
• ISBN13: 9781474403078
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"