Stasis
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world''s populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben''s latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in an...
We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world''s populations. Meant as a first step toward such a theory, Giorgio Agamben''s latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought: in an...
