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Author: Professor Brendan Moran ,
Dr Carlo Salzani
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Weight: 0.376kg
ISBN: 9781474241892
ISBN 10: 1474241891
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 August 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Agamben's relationship with Walter Benjamin is decisive and yet complex, and this is above all the case for Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence,' a dense text in its own right. In this volume centered on Benjamin's 'Critique' and Agamben's reading of it, the authors make significant contributions to our understanding of a text that has attained an urgent 'legibility' in the present moment and of a contemporary intellectual project that at once extends and betrays it. Adam Kotsko, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Shimer College, USA The articles in this volume take up the challenge of rereading Benjamin after Agamben, and do so with the utmost seriousness, erudition, argumentativeness and incisiveness. Clarifying without simplifying, and extending without falsification, this collection will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Benjamin and Agamben, but for its critical discussions concerning the relations between myth, law, violence nand justice. Justin Dominic Clemens, Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia A rich collection that sometimes articulates existing problems in a new light, sometimes opens up unexpected contexts for the interpretation of both Benjamin and Agamben, at other times points towards directions that their work may be taken to. ... As such, it is a welcome addition to the growing body of Agamben (and Benjamin) scholarship. Arcadia
Agamben's relationship with Walter Benjamin is decisive and yet complex, and this is above all the case for Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence,' a dense text in its own right. In this volume centered on Benjamin's 'Critique' and Agamben's reading of it, the authors make significant contributions to our understanding of a text that has attained an urgent 'legibility' in the present moment and of a contemporary intellectual project that at once extends and betrays it. Adam Kotsko, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Shimer College, USA The articles in this volume take up the challenge of rereading Benjamin after Agamben, and do so with the utmost seriousness, erudition, argumentativeness and incisiveness. Clarifying without simplifying, and extending without falsification, this collection will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Benjamin and Agamben, but for its critical discussions concerning the relations between myth, law, violence nand justice. Justin Dominic Clemens, Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Author Information
Brendan Moran is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. Carlo Salzani is a translator and author based in Münster, Germany and editor, with Brendan Moran, of Philosophy and Kafka (2013).
