Agamben and Theology: Philosophy and Theology

Introduces English-speaking readers to the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben.

Colby Dickinson is a post-doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (KULeuven, Belgium).

Acknowledgements\Works of Giorgio Agamben\Introduction\Chapter 1. The state of original sin, or On language\Chapter 2. The eclipse of humanity\Chapter 3. The sacred\Chapter 4. From universal to particular\Chapter 5. First regression\Chapter 6. Second regression\Conclusion\Coda\Endnotes\Bibliography

Agamben has long been deeply concerned with theological issues. This book is the first, and also much needed, overview of Agamben's relation to theology. Striking the perfect balance between exposition and analysis, it deserves to be widely read.
This is a well-written, lucid and remarkably comprehensive introduction to a wide-ranging and intellectually challenging contemporary thinker. Exploring the extremities of what it is to be human, and a linguistic animal, Agamben's work pushes at the frontier where divine plenitude can becoming a terrifying absence that makes all our sovereignties and distinctions mere configurations of the will to power. In the gap between these possibilities and ambiguities, Agamben announces a messianic 'yes' to our bare existence. Dickinson's book clearly shows that all of Agamben's fundamental questions are theological in provenance and resonance. So anyone interested in the relationship between theology and contemporary continental thinking should read this...and ponder.

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Part of the "Philosophy and Theology" series that looks at major philosophers and explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the response of theology, this book deals with the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology.