...Christiane Frey This essay attempts a rather minimalistic reconstruction of different understandings of the notion of calling ( klēsis , vocatio , Beruf ) from Paul to Giorgio Agamben in an effort to better understand and more accurately gauge Agamben's reading of Paul's Letter to the Romans...

...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky In his book The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans , Giorgio Agamben states that the famous hunchbacked dwarf from Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history was none other than Paul. Unlike Agamben, Benjamin was a reader...

...Marit Grøtta Abstract The Nature theater of Oklahama in Der Verschollene is one of Kafka’s most enigmatic inventions, widely known through Walter Benjamin’s and Giorgio Agamben’s reading of it as a theater of gestures. This article explores the intertextual archive of Kafka’s novel, bringing...

... categorical imperative has been imposed on us. The business about a bodily sensation of a moral addendum hardly amounts to the terms for affirming our vital animality. These four issues are directly addressed in Giorgio Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz in a conceptual scheme that at first glance...

.../11 theory. As I show below, the history of political theology problematizes some current concepts used by Giorgio Agamben. A Time of Decision: Buber, Schmitt, Agamben In State of Exception (2005) Agamben writes: “The aim of this investigation into the urgency of the state of exception...

... theology as a form of biopolitical critique, like Giorgio Agamben, or who see it as a key to the 4. Gray, Black Mass, 128–34. 5. Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, trans. Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), 8n4. 6. Ibid., 36. 7. “Die spezifi sch...

... becomes a palimpsest for Müller's own situation in the newly reunited Germany. The playwright celebrated as “Müller-Deutschland,” with one foot planted on either side of the Berlin Wall, could not find a comfortable stance once that wall was torn down. Drawing on the work of Giorgio Agamben and Carl...

..., specifically the applicant's post deportation livability, in view of possible human rights violations. With the aid of Michel Foucault's and Giorgio Agamben's work, this article traces the striking transformation of legal personhood into livability questions in European deportation appeal cases. To assess...

...Arnd Wedemeyer This article starts from the observation that Giorgio Agamben, in making the Roman sacratio the emblem for the modern political condition, passes over the peculiarities of the curse as a speech act. He suggests that Walter Benjamin offers the tools for such an analysis and hence...

... the historical essays in Susan O. Shapiro, O Tempora! O Mores! Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations (Norman: Uni- versity of Oklahoma Press, 2005), which also offers a substantial bibliography on the topic. For an analysis according to Giorgio Agamben’s theory of sovereignty see Michèle Lowrie, “Sovereignty...

... in an order increasingly indifferent to dis- tinctions between public and private space, and hence private and public experience?”31 The reference to Giorgio Agamben alludes to his 1978 statement that experience is delegated to the camera: “Standing face to face with one of the great wonders...

.... —Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Giorgio Agamben opens his lapidary essay “Notes on Gesture” with a striking claim: “By the end of the nineteenth century the gestures of the Western bourgeoisie were irretrievably lost.” A little later we are presented with the consequences...

... . ———. 2011 . “Review of Paradigms for a Metaphorology and Care Crosses the River.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , August 23 . ndpr.nd.edu/news/25580-paradigms-for-a-metaphorology-and-care-crosses-the-river . Agamben Giorgio . 2009 . “What Is a Paradigm?” In The Signature of All Things...

... on the necessity of “exclusivity” or “discrimination” to a properly public realm ( Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question , 56 ). 42. On Arendt’s influence on Agamben’s concept of “bare life,” see Ziarek, “Bare Life.” 41. See, e.g., Butler, “Arendt and Aristotle,” which argues that Aristotle...

... of the Critique of Violence, the debate about a “messianic without messianism,” and the broad debate over the writings of Giorgio Agamben.4 These discourses are new in the sense that they refer to religion less as an element in Benjamin’s work, something to grasp in order to understand what Benjamin...

... than merely participating in chronological time. To the con- trary, to be true to one’s own time, to be a good contemporary, would mean adding certain discontinuities into the continuum of chronological time. This begins, as Giorgio Agamben has asserted in a small text on the notion...

... on the Philosophy of History,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969), 253–64; Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998); Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell...

... harrowing life was his only true subject.” 9 Then there are the highly influential interpretations by Walter Benjamin and, in his wake, Giorgio Agamben. 10 The following passage from Benjamin marks Agamben’s starting point: “They are figures who have left madness behind them, and this is why...

... reconstruction by monolingual means. This is a much different assessment than that of Giorgio Agamben, who claims that “Hurbinek cannot bear witness, because he lacks the language (the speech that he utters is uncertain and meaningless17 However ruefully, Agam- ben’s statement disqualifies...

... and the other accelerat- ing the “time it takes time to end” in Giorgio Agamben’s felicitous formula for capturing the uncanny temporality of the Pauline kairos.11 I conclude by dis- cussing the intertwined positions of Taubes and Schmitt in light of Paul’s understanding of the kairos as the working out...