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Giorgio Agamben

Italian Philosopher

Born: Apr 22, 1942

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The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic. Giorgio Agamben

Terrorism Thought Become State Sole Security Risk More Bears Within Always Source Provoked Task Essential Legitimacy Which Organism Fragile

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. Giorgio Agamben

Time Relationship Those Neither Through Perfectly Demands Contemporary Nor Truly Then Who Adapt Coincide

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