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"""A work of retrieval. . . Agamben's main project is to uncover the political implications for the difference between the chronological life and the biographical life. This book is both creative and profound.""-- ""Choice"" ""On Agamben's pages, H�lderlin's late life simultaneously emerges and vanishes as a potentiality--as an indeterminate, or perhaps uncannily overdetermined, occasion for philosophical speculation.""-- ""Monatshefte"""

"""A work of retrieval. . . Agamben's main project is to uncover the political implications for the difference between the chronological life and the biographical life. This book is both creative and profound."" * Choice * ""On Agamben’s pages, Hölderlin’s late life simultaneously emerges and vanishes as a potentiality—as an indeterminate, or perhaps uncannily overdetermined, occasion for philosophical speculation."" * Monatshefte *"

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Giorgio Agamben is one of Italy’s foremost contemporary thinkers. He recently brought to a close his widely influential archaeology of Western politics, the nine-volume Homo Sacer series. Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. A recipient of the Gutekunst Prize and co-curator of this year’s Festival Neue Literatur in New York, she translates from Italian and German into English and is a member of Cedilla & Co.  

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