Description: Further DetailsTitle: PotentialitiesCondition: NewSubtitle: Collected Essays in PhilosophyISBN-10: 0804732787EAN: 9780804732789ISBN: 9780804732789Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/01/2000Description: This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confrontations with privileged figures in the history of philosophy, politics, and criticism, from Plato to Spinoza, Aristotle to Deleuze, Carl Schmitt to Benjamin, Hegel to Aby Warburg, and Heidegger to Derrida. Three fundamental concepts organize the collection as a whole: language, in the sense not of particular statements but rather the very taking place of speech, the pure fact of language's existence; history, as it appears from a perspective in which tradition, transmission, and memory reach their messianic fulfillment; and potentiality, understood as a fundamental problem of metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. All these topics converge in the final part of the book, in which Agamben offers an extensive reading of Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a work that puts potentiality and actuality, possibility and reality, in an altogether new light.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 435gAuthor: Giorgio AgambenContributor: Daniel Heller-Roazen (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Meridian: Crossing AestheticsRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Potentialities
Title: Potentialities
Subtitle: Collected Essays in Philosophy
ISBN-10: 0804732787
EAN: 9780804732789
ISBN: 9780804732789
Release Date: 01/01/2000
Release Year: 2000
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Daniel Heller-Roazen (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Potentialities : Collected Essays in Philosophy
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Historiography, Language, Movements / General, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Aesthetics
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.3 Oz
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
