back    Giorgio Agamben Philosopher Giorgio Agamben studied law, literature, and philosophy. The crucial impulse for his philosophy came only after completing his law studies, in two seminars with Martin Heidegger in the summers of 1966 and 1968. In addition to Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin have been important figures for Agamben’s thinking since that time. As the editor of the Italian edition of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Agamben discovered a series of manuscripts previously thought lost. Since the end of the 1980s Agamben has been primarily occupied with political philosophy. Today Agamben is one of the most discussed philosophers; he teaches at the universities of Verona and Macerata and has been a visiting professor in Paris, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Irvine, and Düsseldorf, among other places. In 2006 he participated in Il cielo sulla terra at the Forum Neues Musiktheater.
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