Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

“A critical English-language volume on [Agamben’s] work has then been long overdue and it is with great pleasure and interest that we welcome Andrew Norris’ Politics, Metaphysics, Death. . . . What truly recommends the volume is the contributors’ conscious decision to keep clear of the genre of textual exegesis with a view to throwing light on those historical, political, legal, ethical and philosophical contexts within which Agamben’s project (along with its limits) can be appreciated.” - Marios Constantinou and Maria Margaroni, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies

“Politics, Metaphysics, and Death provides the most lucid and penetrating accounts available of the political thought of Italy’s most influential philosopher. Agamben’s engagement with the complex entanglement of modernity and the tradition, the contributors to this volume show, cannot be ignored by anyone who would face up to the demands now placed by politics on political theory.” - Frederick M. Dolan, author of Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics

“Andrew Norris and the contributors to this collection have not only performed extraordinary feats of textual exegesis but also produced a critical context and set of arguments with and concerning Agamben’s theory of sovereignty which will provide the starting point for all future study on his political thought.” - Thomas Dumm, author of A Politics of the Ordinary