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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Divided into three sections - 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' - this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben is not usually seen as an existentialist philosopher. But now, this volume shows how his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. Divided into three sections - 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' - this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben's thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben's work.' Kevin Attell, Cornell University Explores the philosophical relationship between Giorgio Agamben and the existentialist tradition While Giorgio Agamben's work has not previously been categorised as existentialist, his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. This collection of essays offers creative new ways of considering Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception, as well as other existentialist themes, including feminism and postcolonialism. The international range of contributors each challenge, complicate or reimagine Agamben's reading of the sovereign exception, which appears among the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Fanon, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others in both theistic and atheistic forms. Divided into three sections - Agamben and the Sovereign Exception, Agamben and the Death of God and Existentialist Themes in Agamben - this collection re-introduces Agamben as an unacknowledged existentialist philosopher who takes the major themes and concepts of existentialism in a startling new direction. Marcos Antonio Norris is a doctoral candidate and Crown Fellow at Loyola University Chicago. Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. Cover image: (c) iStockphoto.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-7877-9 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Marcos Antonio Norris is a doctoral candidate and Crown Fellow at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on contemporary Continental thought. <p>Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of <i>Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology</i> (Bloomsbury, 2021), <i>Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectics</i> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), <i>Continental Philosophy and Theology</i> (Brill, 2018), <i>Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation</i> (Fordham University Press, 2016), <i>Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought</i> (Bloomsbury, 2013), <i>Agamben and Theology</i> (T&T Clark, 2011). He is co-author of <i>Agamben's Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology</i> with Adam Kotsko (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He is also the co-editor of <i>The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition</i> (Bloomsbury, 2020) and <i>Agamben and the Existentialists</i> (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).<p>

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