Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
(Part of the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series, Homo Sacer Series, and 2.2 Series)
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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"
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