作者简介

Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher and political theorist who has been described as “one of the most vital and most discussed figures in academia”. Renowned for his insights into the history and contemporary crises of Western thought, his many works include The End of the Poem (Stanford University Press), Infancy and History (Verso Books), State of Exception (The University of Chicago Press), and The Use of Bodies (Stanford University Press), the latter of which brought to a conclusion his nine-volume Homo Sacer series. Currently based in Italy, he has held a number of distinguished academic posts, including the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School.

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In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency. Alongside and beyond accusations and exact descriptions, these texts variously reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracy together with its rights, parliaments, and constitutions is everywhere surrendering to a new despotism where citizens seem to accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms. This leads to the urgency of the volume s title: Where Are We Now? For how long will we accept living in a constantly extended state of exception, the end of which is impossible to see?


Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher and political theorist who has been described as “one of the most vital and most discussed figures in academia”. Renowned for his insights into the history and contemporary crises of Western thought, his many works include The End of the Poem (Stanford University Press), Infancy and History (Verso Books), State of Exception (The University of Ch...

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  • 盗火者Howell
    这本感觉有失水准。不是说不同意他说的,主要感觉是他愤怒的情绪大过于论证,可是处在pandemic我们又如何能做到不愤怒呢。06-11
  • 年方十八发如雪
    在上海大禁闭的这段时间,陆续阅读阿甘本在两年前写下的文章。或许置身于欧洲的他,对瘟疫的思考是非常悲观乃至有点偏激,但放在“为安全而安全”的东方国家语境中,几乎每个批判都击中要害。一种致力于保障赤裸生命的政治范式,已经侵入我们的生活。当然,这书注定也出不了简中版。04-17
  • 煤炭师专学报
    前两年我写过一篇关于阿甘本疫情期间发表文章的小论文 觉得自己没有想好就没有投稿 现在这个时间看过去 自己到底写了啥……04-20
  • maomaoding
    迟到了半年的疫情封城必备读物10-15
  • 散木
    对号入座的阅读没什么意思,阿甘本两年前的预言要是照单全收,和相信街头算命大师也没什么本质区别。在这种日子里,不管是凶兆吉兆,都和管方发布、站队摆立场、数字数据一样,让人心神不宁。比较意外的是他把社交距离看作大流行首恶,而其后果(人际关系的虚拟化、怔治参与的减少)似乎没有在周围引起太多抱怨,国情不同可想而知。大流行对空间感知的影响,公共空间的废除与对日常生活空间的再探索,值得进一步探究。05-04

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