Free Download On Contemporaneity, after Agamben: The Concept and its Times
by Zsuzsa Baross
English | 2020 | ISBN: 184519991X | 169 Pages | True PDF | 3.35 MB

Free Download Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series: A Critical Introduction and Guide by Colby Dickinson
English | May 30, 2022 | ISBN: 147448669X, 1474486703 | True EPUB | 248 pages | 0.2 MB
Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why Agamben's Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He explores key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear throughout the series.

The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No By Aaron Hillyer
2015 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1501306804 | PDF | 10 MB
In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage a dialogue between the works of Blanchot and Giorgio Agamben. Despite being primary points of reference for literary theory, no significant critical work has examined their "literary" writings together. The Disappearance of Literature initiates this new trajectory through readings of Blanchot's The Unavowable Community and Agamben's The Open, two short books that harbor their most enigmatic writings. A series of related concepts-study, community, mysticism, and friendship-emerges from this pairing, and, Hillyer argues, forms the basis of a new vein of contemporary literature found in the novels and hybrid fictions of Enrique Vila-Matas, Anne Carson, and Cesar Aira.