It states that this book consists of two lectures given by the illustrious italian political philosopher giorgio agamben at a seminar at stanford university concerning civil war on october 2001 the subtitle for this book is civil war as a political paradigm promised to be an illuminating read of agamben presenting his theory of civil war following the cataclysmic changes wrought by 9 11. Stasis civil war as a political paradigm by agamben giorgio august 2015 agamben giorgio isbn kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Just over a decade ago the work of giorgio agamben shot to prominence on the back of his provocative claim that the camps of nazi germany have today become nothing less than the new biopolitical nomos of the planet the grim and terrifying paradigm of modern political rule in stasis the penultimate study in his sprawling homo sacer series agamben turns no longer to the camp but to the condition of civil war as the political paradigm best suited to shedding light on the politics of . Meant as a first step toward such a theory giorgio agambens latest book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of western thought in ancient athens from which the political concept of stasis emerges and later in the work of thomas hobbes it identifies civil war as the fundamental threshold of politicization in the west an apparatus that over the course of history has alternately allowed for the de politicization of citizenship and the