TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Marcos Antonio AU - Dickinson,Colby TI - Agamben and the existentialists /edited by Marcos Antonio Norris, Colby Dickinson SN - 9781474478793 AV - B3611 .A336 2021 KW - Agamben, Giorgio, KW - Philosophy-Ancient KW - Existentialism KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Intro --; Agamben and the Existentialists --; Copyright --; Contents --; Notes on Contributors --; 1 Introduction: Agamben, Nothingness and Existentialism --; Part I Agamben and the Sovereign Exception --; 2 The Many Faces of a Hidden God: Agamben's Relations to Kierkegaard Reconsidered --; 3 Biopolitics and Probability: Modifications on Life's Way --; 4 Kierkegaard and Form-of-Life Kierkegaard and the Figure of Form-of-Life --; Part II Agamben and the Death of God --; 5 The Work of Art and the Death of God in Nietzsche and Agamben; 6 Whither the Divine? Nietzsche, Heidegger and the End of Metaphysics in Agamben's Thought --; 7 Sartre and Agamben: Confronting Nothingness and the (Apparent) Death of God --; Part III Existentialist Themes in Agamben --; 8 Death and the Negative in Agamben and Beauvoir --; 9 Endless Ontology: Agamben and Sartre on Death --; 10 Destituent Potential and Camus's Politics of Rebellion --; 11 A Politics Like No Other: Agamben, Fanon and the Colonial Fracture --; 12 Dis/Belief in Agamben and de Silentio --; 13 The Existential Situation and Christian Experience: Messianism and Eschatological Salvation; 2; b N2 - Divided into three sections - 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' - this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3067760&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -