What to Read After State of Exception
Readers who loved State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where State of Exception is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after State of Exception
Empire
The philosophical discourse of modernity
Homo sacer
Inner experience
Ethics
Society must be defended
Specters of Marx
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
What Is Philosophy?
Antigone's Claim
Security, territory, population
Being and Event
Hegemony & Socialist Strategy
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Becoming an Ally
Lenin and philosophy, and other essays.
Spinoza, practical philosophy
Différence et répétition
Bodies that matter
The Human Condition
Reflections
Ethics
Foucault (Continuum Impacts)
Imagined communities