9781474401531

Stasis

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781474401531

Hardcover|9781474401531


Overview

Giorgio Agamben investigates the ongoing warfare that European state power has been waging 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 investigates first the classical Athenian theme of 'stasis' - the city's struggle against internal revolt. He then turns to a new reading of Hobbes' Leviathan and its approach to the peril of the early modern English Commonwealth's exposure to civil strife, division and revolution. At the heart of this book is the issue of state powers in their continuous decline - an issue that is key to the renewal of political, philosophical and legal thought.

ISBN-13

9781474401531

ISBN-10

1474401538

Weight

0.47 Pounds

Dimensions

8.60 x 0.50 x 5.60 In

List Price

$69.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

64 pages

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published On

2015-08-01



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