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Abstract

One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding.

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MetaphysicsPoliticsPower (physics)Context (archaeology)EpistemologyPhilosophySociologyEnvironmental ethicsPolitical scienceHistoryLawArchaeologyPhysics

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Year: 2020
Type: book
Citations: 6946
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                                    Giorgio Agamben
                                
                            (2020). 
                            Homo Sacer. 
                            Stanford University Press eBooks
                            
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                            https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804764025

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DOI: 10.1515/9780804764025