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.
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.
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Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. His works include The Coming Community, Homo Sacer and State of Exception.购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 176 ● ISBN 9781789602753 ● 文件大小 0.2 MB ● 翻译者 Liz Heron ● 出版者 Verso UK ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2020 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8713755 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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