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Titel: Infancy and History
Zustand: New
Description: 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.
Autor: Giorgio Agamben
Breite: 15mm
Buchreihe: Radical Thinkers Set 02
Contributor: Liz Heron (Translated by)
EAN: 9781844675715
Genre: Language & Reference
Gewicht: 200g
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Höhe: 198mm
ISBN: 9781844675715
ISBN-10: 1844675718
Länge: 132mm
Subtitle: On the Destruction of Experience
Translator: Liz Heron
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Verlag: Verso Books
Release date: 17/01/2007
Sprache: Englisch

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