Agamben and the Existentialists - Hardcover

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Marcos Antonio Norris teaches for the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University. He is the co-editor of Agamben and the Existentialists (2021) and the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, most recently including “Francis Macomber, the Matador: Reading Hemingway’s ‘The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ with Death in the Afternoon” in Studies in the American Short Story and “Reading ‘On the Quai at Smyrna’ and ‘A Natural History of the Dead’ in Consideration of Hemingway’s Anti-Humanism” in The Hemingway Review. His research examines the intersections among existentialism, the continental philosophy of religion, and 20th century literature, cinema and television.

Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology (Bloomsbury, 2021), Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Continental Philosophy and Theology (Brill, 2018), Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016), Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought (Bloomsbury, 2013), Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011). He is co-author of Agamben’s Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology with Adam Kotsko (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He is also the co-editor of The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Agamben and the Existentialists (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

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‘Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben’s thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben’s work.’Kevin Attell, Cornell UniversityExplores the philosophical relationship between Giorgio Agamben and the existentialist traditionWhile Giorgio Agamben’s work has not previously been categorised as existentialist, his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. This collection of essays offers creative new ways of considering Agamben’s critique of the sovereign exception, as well as other existentialist themes, including feminism and postcolonialism.The international range of contributors each challenge, complicate or reimagine Agamben’s reading of the sovereign exception, which appears among the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Fanon, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others in both theistic and atheistic forms.Divided into three sections – Agamben and the Sovereign Exception, Agamben and the Death of God and Existentialist Themes in Agamben – this collection re-introduces Agamben as an unacknowledged existentialist philosopher who takes the major themes and concepts of existentialism in a startling new direction.Marcos Antonio Norris is a doctoral candidate and Crown Fellow at Loyola University Chicago.Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago.Cover image: © iStockphoto.comCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-7877-9Barcode