The Philosopher
Giorgio Agamben
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Italian
- Schools:
- Continental philosophy, Philosophy of life
- Branchs:
- political theory, Ontology, Aesthetics, Literature
- Period:
- Contemporary philosophy
The synopsis
The works
The Coming Community
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
State of Exception
The Highest Poverty
The quotes
The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.