Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

Giorgio Agamben investigates the ongoing warfare that European state power has been waging against its most malignant enemy: civil war itself. The survival of the state is seen to depend on its ability to preserve the political community from factional enmity. Agamben investigates first the classical Athenian theme of 'stasis' - the city's struggle against internal revolt. He then turns to a new reading of Hobbes' Leviathan and its approach to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474403077
• ISBN13: 9781474403078
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"