A collection of essays by political theorists on Agamben's Homo Sacer.

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Living Dead / Andrew Norris 1
Au Hasard / Thomas Carl Wall 31
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law / Peter Fitzpatrick
S/Citing the Camp / Erik Vogt 74
The Sovereign Weaver: Beyond the Camp / Andreas Kalyvas 107
Anagrammatics of Violence: The Benjaminian Ground of Homo Sacer / Anselm Haverkamp 135
Spaceing as the Shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben / Andrew Benjamin 145
Cutting the Branches of Akiba: Agamben’s Critique of Derrida / Adam Thurschwell 173
Linguistic Survival and Ethnicality: Biopolitics, Subjectivication, and Testimony in Remnants of Auschwitz / Catherine Mills 198
Supposing the Impossibility of Silence and of Sound, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust / Paul Hegarty 222
Law of Life / Rainer Maria Kiesow 248
The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer / Andrew Norris 262
The State of Exception / Giorgio Agamben 284
Contributors 299
Index 301