Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience

Author:   Giorgio Agamben ,  Liz Heron
Publisher:   Verso Books
Edition:   Annotated edition
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9781844675715


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   17 January 2007
Format:   Paperback
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"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."

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Author:   Giorgio Agamben ,  Liz Heron
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9781844675715


ISBN 10:   1844675718
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   17 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. -- Avital Ronell


Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. - Avrital Ronell, University of California, Berkeley


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Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. His works include The Coming Community, Homo Sacer and State of Exception.

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