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Going along for the ride: violence and gesture: Agamben reading Benjamin reading Kafka reading Cervantes.(Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes)

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From: The Germanic Review
Date: 20060101
Author:Weber, Samuel

In a book published in French and Italian in 2003 and translated into English as State of Exception, (1) as in many of his other writings, Giorgio Agamben refers to the work of Walter Benjamin at particularly decisive points in his argument. In this book, whose title indicates an indebtedness to Carl Schmitt that Agamben shares with Benjamin, the author elaborates a theory of the "state of exception" as the notion through which a certain Western tradition of "biopolitics" seeks to assimilate the heterogeneity on which it depends and thereby to treat it as the integrating element ...

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