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Giorgio Agamben tackles our crisis-ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays.   “Which house is burning?� asks Giorgio Agamben. “The country where you live, or Europe, or the whole world? Perhaps the houses, the cities have already burnt down‿who knows how long ago?‿in a single immense blaze that we pretended not to see.� In this collection of four luminous, lyrical essays, Agamben brings his characteristic combina...

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At the heart of Pulcinella is Agamben's exploration of an album of 104 drawings, created by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) near the end of his life, that cover the life, adventures, death, and resurrection of the title character.

Distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the unusual extensions of executive power seized during states of emergency, a historically underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.

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In "The Open, " contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the ways in which, throughout the history of Western culture, man has been distinguished from animal, and in his inquiry discovers that the human arises not from the "conjunction" of a natural, living body and a divine or rational element, but rather through the workings of the "anthropological machine" which produces man by means of a strategic, practico-political "sepa...