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English
Seagull Books London Ltd
07 October 2024
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered inferior to actual theoretical knowledge.

Taste, Agamben argues, is a category that has much to reveal to the contemporary world. Taking a step into the history of philosophy and reaching to the very origins of aesthetics, Agamben critically recovers the roots of one of Western culture's cardinal concepts. Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and with Taste he turns his critical eye to the realm of Western art and aesthetic practice. This volume will not only engage the author's devoted fans in philosophy, sociology, and literary criticism but also his growing audience among art theorists and historians.
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Imprint:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   59g
ISBN:   9781803094489
ISBN 10:   1803094486
Series:   The Italian List
Pages:   96
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy, including The Church and the Kingdom, The Unspeakable Girl, and Nymphs, all three published by Seagull Books. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series. Cooper Francis is a writer, translator, and software developer whose work focuses on the relationship between the philosophy of history, technology, and art.

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