Leviathans Rätsel

Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben

Leviathans Rätsel

Lucas-Preis 2013

Edited by Friedrich Hermanni

Translated by Paul Silas Peterson

[Leviathan's Riddle.]

2014. 106 pages.

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In the course of history, Giorgio Agamben sees an increasing tendency to create legal vacuums and to reduce human beings to their »bare lives.« This sovereign abrogation of law is an exceptional state in which the sovereign first has to invent the new law purely arbitrarily. The result is that the newly founded legal community is based on the exclusion of those people who do not belong to it and thus do not have legal protection.

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Giorgio Agamben Geboren 1942; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Rom; Bekanntschaft mit Martin Heidegger, die ihn nachhaltig prägte und auf die Bahn der Philosophie brachte, Herausgeber der italienischen Ausgabe der Schriften von Walter Benjamin; 1986-92 Directeur de Programme am Pariser Collège international de philosophie; 1988 Professur für Ästhetik an der Universität Macerata; 1993 Philosophieprofessur in Verona; seit 2003 Professor für Ästhetik in Venedig; regelmäßig Gastprofessuren in den USA und Deutschland; 2006 Prix Européen de l`Essai Charles Veillon; 2012 Ehrendoktorat der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz.

Friedrich Hermanni Born 1958; 1993 Doctorate in Philosophy; 2001 Habilitation in Systematic Theology; Full Professor of Systematic Theology at the Protestant Faculty of Theology, University of Tübingen; Co-opted member of the Faculty of Philosophy there.

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Paul Silas Peterson Born 1979; theological studies in Portland, Edinburgh and Tübingen; Privatdozent Dr. theol., Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Tübingen.