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Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio) Jeff Fort

Profanations

Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio),  Jeff Fort

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English
Zone Books
12 May 2015
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
Series: Profanations
Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben ponders a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation among genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; and the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the creativity of Agamben's singular mode of thought and his persistent concern with the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering. ""In Praise of Profanity,"" the central essay of this short but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. Agamben not only provides a new and potent theoretical model but describes it with a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links among literature, politics, and philosophy.
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Imprint:   Zone Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9781890951832
ISBN 10:   1890951838
Series:   Profanations
Pages:   102
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things: On Method (the last three published by Zone Books), and other books.

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Whether this will be your first, fourth, or fourteenth experience reading essays by Giorgio Agamben, you will find his most recent collectiom. Profanations, to be of enormous use. --Rain Taxi--Reviews


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