19 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Australian philosopher who has worked on biopolitics, Agamben's political philosophy, and bioethics — particularly the ethics of new reproductive technologies.
Italian-American philosopher who has worked on Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, and political philosophy.
American philosopher and philologist who produces baroque scholarly works at the intersection of philosophy, philology, legal history, and medieval studies.
Jacques Derrida's practice of reading philosophical and literary texts to expose the hierarchical binary oppositions they depend on and the internal contradictions that undermine their claims to stable meaning.
French psychoanalyst and militant who collaborated with Gilles Deleuze to develop schizoanalysis as an alternative to Lacanian psychoanalysis and to theorize desire as productive rather than structured by lack.
Translator and scholar contributing to the anglophone reception of Giorgio Agamben.
French philosopher who developed a philosophy of pure difference and immanence — difference not grounded in identity — drawing on Bergson, Spinoza, and Nietzsche, and co-created with Guattari the concepts of rhizome, assemblage, and deterritorialization.
Italian philosopher who developed the concepts of bare life, homo sacer, and the state of exception, arguing that sovereignty operates by reducing subjects to killable bare life stripped of political rights.
Algerian-French philosopher who developed deconstruction — a practice of reading that exposes the internal tensions and hierarchical oppositions structuring philosophical and literary texts.
American philosopher working on Hegel's philosophy of recognition and the political implications of Hegelian social philosophy.
American scholar who has worked on Italian cultural theory and contributed to the reception of Giorgio Agamben in the anglophone world.
American scholar and translator of Giorgio Agamben who has contributed to the interpretation and reception of his work in English.
American political theorist who collaborated with Antonio Negri on the Empire trilogy — arguing that sovereignty has shifted from the nation-state to a decentered network (Empire) and that resistance comes from the multitude.
British philosopher who has worked on aesthetics, Kierkegaard, and the relationship between philosophy and literature.
Italian-American scholar who has contributed to the translation and critical reception of Giorgio Agamben.
Late collaborative work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari defining philosophy as the creation of concepts, distinguished from science (functions on a plane of reference) and art (affects and percepts on a plane of composition).