Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy No 5, to be published in 2002, will be a special issue examining the work of Giorgio Agamben.
Agamben is the author of Infancy and History: The Destruction of Experience (1993), The Coming Community (1993), Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture (1993), The Idea of Prose (1995), Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics (1999), and Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (2000). Contretemps invites material examining Agamben's work in part and in whole, with particular emphasis upon the place and future for a thinking of community, and the relation between language and negativity as a specifically political question (following both Benjamin's thinking of a 'politics of pure means', and Hegel's dictum that art is is 'a thing of the past', and that accordingly, we live in an 'age of prose'). Contretemps will consider original articles, conference papers, authorized translations of previously untranslated material by Agamben, and critical reviews of Agamben's most recent work.
Please consult Contretemps' submission guidelines before contributing.
Manuscripts are to be sent electronically to contretemps@mail.usyd.edu.au
Deadline: January 30, 2002.
Thank you for your interest,
Contretemps editorial board,
John Dalton
Nicholas Strobbe
Justine McGill