AGAMBEN Giorgio - What Remains of Auschwitz

"What Remains of Auschwitz" is the third part of Giorgio Agamben's trilogy, in which the central role is played by the figure of Homo Sacer - a man completely stripped of his dignity, who is now just a naked life. The extreme form of Homo Sacer was a concentration camp prisoner just before his final journey to the gas chamber (the "muslim"). Like a living corpse, he was already arousing only resentment.

But according to Agamben, a careful reader and interpreter of Primo Levi's "camp" books and other survivors, such a man would have been the most credible witness to the crimes at Auschwitz. Those who survived cannot be witnesses, since they did not live through the drama to the end. The dead, on the other hand, have no voice. Agamben also argues that Auschwitz never ended - after Auschwitz there is only a permanent life "in" and "with" Auschwitz.

Published by Sic!, 2008.
Format 205 x 135 mm, 177 pages.
UNIQUE.

Book in very good condition.