Giorgio Agamben 
Infancy and History [EPUB ebook] 
On the Destruction of Experience

Ondersteuning

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a ‘dumb’ experience? For Walter Benjamin, the ‘poverty of experience’ was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice.
Agamben’s profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Benveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throws new light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: the anthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguistic opposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject and the appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time and history; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a careful reading of the famous Adorno-Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire’s Paris); and the difference between rituals and games.
Beautifully written, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of great interest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and politics.

€15.99
Betalingsmethoden

Over de auteur

Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. His works include The Coming Community, Homo Sacer and State of Exception.

Koop dit e-boek en ontvang er nog 1 GRATIS!
Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 176 ● ISBN 9781789602753 ● Bestandsgrootte 0.2 MB ● Vertaler Liz Heron ● Uitgeverij Verso UK ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Gepubliceerd 2020 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 8713755 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
Vereist een DRM-compatibele e-boeklezer

Meer e-boeken van dezelfde auteur (s) / Editor

43.090 E-boeken in deze categorie