Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: The Figure of This World
- 1 The Question of Political Ontology
- 2 The Poetic Experience of the World
- 3 The Myth of the Earth
- 4 The Unbearable
- 5 The Creature before the Law
- 6 The Animal for which Animality is an Issue
- 7 Understanding the Happy
- 8 The Picture and its Captives
- 9 The Passing of the Figure of This World
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor's Preface
- Introduction: The Figure of This World
- 1 The Question of Political Ontology
- 2 The Poetic Experience of the World
- 3 The Myth of the Earth
- 4 The Unbearable
- 5 The Creature before the Law
- 6 The Animal for which Animality is an Issue
- 7 Understanding the Happy
- 8 The Picture and its Captives
- 9 The Passing of the Figure of This World
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Figure of This WorldAgamben and the Question of Political Ontology, pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014