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6 unusual facts about Giorgio Agamben


1990 in philosophy

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community (published in Italian as La comunità che viene in 1990; English translation: 1993)

Führerprinzip

Giorgio Agamben has argued that Hitler saw himself as an incarnation of auctoritas, and as the living law or highest law itself, effectively combining in his persona executive power, judicial power and legislative power.

Ilana Salama Ortar

The work combined two projects dealing with the notion of bare life, drawn after Giorgio Agamben, and referring to the borders between Israel and Lebanon and Syria respectively.

Internet Invention

Other significant postmodern figures whom Ulmer references include Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Algirdas Greimas, Terry Eagleton, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben.

K8 Hardy

In this performance project with musician and sound artist Stefan Tcherepnin, the two respond to Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “Bare Life” (White, 20).

Néstor Braunstein

Braunstein recognizes the following authors as the main influences on his thought: Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis Althusser, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben.


Byung-Chul Han

Through Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Richard Sennett, René Girard, Giorgio Agamben, Deleuze/Guattari, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Pierre Bourdieu and Martin Heidegger, Han approaches his own concept of violence, that finds to work in free individuality.

Jacob Taubes

He has influenced many contemporary thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Susan Sontag, Avital Ronell, Marshall Berman, Babette Babich, and Peter Sloterdijk.

Paul W. Kahn

Similarities can be drawn between his work and that of other contemporary scholars such as Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben.

Political theology

Many leading non-Christian thinkers have written extensively on the topic of political theology in recent years, such as Jürgen Habermas, Giorgio Agamben, Simon Critchley, and Slavoj Zizek.

Victor Vitanza

Vitanza's efforts are to reread and rewrite questions and concepts raised by such theorists and historians as Gilles Deleuze, Samuel Ijsseling, Giorgio Agamben, and Jean-François Lyotard.


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