Giorgio Agamben

(Author)

Potentialities: Collected EssaysPaperback, 1 January 2000

Potentialities: Collected Essays
Qty
1
Turbo
Ships in 2 - 3 days
Only 2 left
Free Delivery
Cash on Delivery
15 Days
Free Returns
Secure Checkout
Buy More, Save More
Part of Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Part of Series
Orphans' Home Cycle
Print Length
328 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Date Published
1 Jan 2000
ISBN-10
0804732787
ISBN-13
9780804732789

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Giorgio Agamben
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 January 2000
Dimensions:
22.83 x 15.39 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0804732787
ISBN-13:
9780804732789
Language:
English
Location:
Stanford, CA
Pages:
328
Weight:
435.45 gm

Related Categories


Need Help?
+971 6 731 0280
support@gzb.ae

About UsContact UsPayment MethodsFAQsShipping PolicyRefund and ReturnTerms of UsePrivacy PolicyCookie Notice

VisaMastercardCash on Delivery

© 2024 White Lion General Trading LLC. All rights reserved.