Politics, metaphysics, and death : essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo sacer / edited by Andrew Norris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the politics of the living dead / Andrew Norris -- Au hasard / Thomas Carl Wall -- Bare sovereignty: Homo sacer and the insistence of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- S/Citing the camp / Erik Vogt -- The sovereign weaver: beyond the camp / Andreas Kalyvas -- Anagrammatics of violence: the Benjaminian ground of Homo sacer / Anselm Haverkamp -- Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben / Andrew Benjamin -- Cutting the branches for Akiba: Agamben's critique of Derrida / Adam Thurschwell -- Linguistic survival and ethicality: biopolitics, subjectivation, and testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz / Catherine Mills -- Supposing the impossibility of silence and sound, of voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the holocaust / Paul Hegarty -- Law and life / Rainer Maria Kiesow -- The exemplary exception: philosophical and political decisions in Giorgio Agamben's Homo sacer / Andrew Norris -- The state of exception / Giorgio Agamben.