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Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers) - Softcover

Agamben, Giorgio

 
9781844675715: Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844675718 ISBN 13: 9781844675715
Verlag: Verso Books, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844675718
ISBN 13 
9781844675715
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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