Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben's latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804797315
• ISBN13: 9780804797313
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.1"