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Giorgio agamben, an italian philosopher and radical political theorist, is professor of philosophy at the university of venice. Amongst the voluminous speculations on the world to come that have accompanied messianic prophecies, one stands out, not for the extravagance of its predictions, but for the very banality of its account of redemption. A critical introduction presents the complexity and continuity of agambens philosophyand does so for two separate. Agambens thesis that the camp is the hidden matrix of politics agamben 2001a. Third, agamben s reading in relation to aristotles logic of potentiality.
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