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CCEP lecture: Law and violence: Around Agamben’s homo sacer

19 December 2016 @ 16:00 - 17:30

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Lecture Law and violence: Around Agamben’s homo sacer Marcus C.R. Teshainer & Ronaldo Manzi Monday 19 December 2016, 16:00-17:30 Erasmus building E 1.04, Radboud University Showing that the right is based on the possibility of a state of exception, Giorgio Agamben gives us the possibility to think that the focus of politics and law is life, not social welfare. This turns in violence from the moment that can be choose which form of life is or is not worth living.…
Lecture Law and violence: Around Agamben's homo sacer Marcus C.R. Teshainer & Ronaldo Manzi Monday 19 December 2016, 16:00-17:30 Erasmus building E 1.04, Radboud University Showing that the right is based on the possibility of a state of exception, Giorgio Agamben gives us the possibility to think that the focus of politics and law is life, not social welfare. This turns in violence from the moment that can be choose which form of life is or is not worth living. An example of this anthropolohttps://www.ozsw.nl/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=tribe_eventsgical machinery repeated in some ways today is Auschwitz. However, this event does not cease to resonate – and through Agamben’s thought we can view new forms of violence in modernity, as the question of gender. The Center for Contemporary European Philosophy in Nijmegen is the Netherlands’ main center for teaching and research in 20th and 21st century continental philosophy. Our members specialize in a variety of fields, including phenomenology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, critical theory, political philosophy, and virtue ethics.

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19 December 2016
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16:00 - 17:30
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Erasmus building E 1.04, Radboud University
Nijmegen, + Google Map

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Law and violence: Around Agamben’s homo sacer

Marcus C.R. Teshainer & Ronaldo Manzi

Monday 19 December 2016, 16:00-17:30

Erasmus building E 1.04, Radboud University

Showing that the right is based on the possibility of a state of exception, Giorgio Agamben gives us the possibility to think that the focus of politics and law is life, not social welfare. This turns in violence from the moment that can be choose which form of life is or is not worth living. An example of this anthropolohttps://www.ozsw.nl/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=tribe_eventsgical machinery repeated in some ways today is Auschwitz. However, this event does not cease to resonate – and through Agamben’s thought we can view new forms of violence in modernity, as the question of gender.

The Center for Contemporary European Philosophy in Nijmegen is the Netherlands’ main center for teaching and research in 20th and 21st century continental philosophy. Our members specialize in a variety of fields, including phenomenology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, critical theory, political philosophy, and virtue ethics.

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