Critical Encounter Between Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault: Review of Recent Works of Agamben

Following the trajectory of Giorgio Agamben's work since the mid-1990s not only offers a fascinating exposure to this productive period, and an important political turn, in his work, it also makes evident that it is proceeding by an ongoing interpretation of the thought of Michel Foucault. This review offers a chance to evaluate several of his texts, including the most recent ones, together in a manner that allows at least a partial exposition of Agamben's engagement with Foucault. These texts, some long translated in English, some newly translated (with attendant considerations that are noted here), and some not yet translated from Italian, show an intellectual itinerary followed in the developing work of Giorgio Agamben: one which, by his own insistence, is heavily indebted to Foucault.