chart for agamben

[Anonymous No.13583268]

i thought it would be a good idea to construct a reading chart for agamben since he is an important philosopher of our age with a body of work that's dispersed by subject, chronologically and topologically. I begin with the Homo Sacer series. (cont.)

[Anonymous No.13583274]

the order of Homo Sacer series:

1. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

2.1. State of Exception
2.2. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm
2.3. The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath
2.4. The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Glory
2.5. Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty

3. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive

4.1. The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
4.2. The Use of Bodies

[Anonymous No.13583295]

i've only read Homosacer and State of Exception so far, but i'd recommend reading Schmitt and Foucault before reading Agamben. Does he have much beyond the Homo Sacer project?

[Anonymous No.13583684]

His What Is an Apparatus? (and Other Essays) is a fairly approachable short work (presuming one has into'd philosophy), but is also contemporaneous with (and thus good as an intro to - together with the essay "Art, Inactivity, Politics") The Kingdom and the Glory. His recently translated Creation and Anarchy seems to continue some themes from The Kingdom as well.

I think The Coming Community and The Open, which consist of short, loosely connected essays, are fairly approachable as well.

[Anonymous No.13585257]

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