Nymphs (häftad)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
72
Utgivningsdatum
2024-10-08
Förlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Översättare
Amanda Minervini
Dimensioner
193 x 135 x 8 mm
Vikt
136 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781803094434

Nymphs

av Giorgio Agamben
Häftad,  Engelska, 2024-10-08
199
Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Skickas från oss inom 5-8 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Finns även som
Visa alla 1 format & utgåvor
Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the authors devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism but also his growing audience among art theorists and historians as well. In 1900, art historians Andr Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: A fantastic figureshall I call her a servant girl, or rather a classical nymph?what is the meaning of it all?Who is the nymph? Where does she come from? Warburgs response: in essence she is an elemental spirit, a pagan goddess in exile, serves as the touchstone for this wide-ranging and theoretical exploration of female representation in iconography. In Nymphs, the newest translation of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agambens work, the author notes that academic research has lingered on the pagan goddess, while the concept of elemental spirit, ignored by scholars, is vital to the history of iconography. Tracing the genealogy of this idea, Agamben goes on to examine subjects as diverse as the aesthetic theories of choreographer Domineco da Piacenza, Friedrich Theodor Vischers essay on the symbol, Walter Benjamins concept of the dialectic image, and the bizarre discoveries of photographer Nathan Lerner in 1972. From these investigations, there emerges a startlingly original exploration of the ideas of time and the image.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. Nymphs
  2. +
  3. Two Hearts, One Beat

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Two Hearts, One Beat av Marcus Gunnarsen, Martinus Gunnarsen, Frida Söderlund (häftad).

Köp båda 2 för 418 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Giorgio Agamben

Visa alla böcker av Giorgio Agamben »

Recensioner i media

Agambens core argument is concise, although his discussion ranges far and wide over authors and disciplines, from a discussion of a work by the video artist Bill Viola to comments on an essay on the poetics of dance by Domenico da Piaccnza (mid-fifteenth century) and discussions of Aby Warburg and his seminal notion of Pathosformel; from discussions of a vast, bizarre unpublished manuscript by an otherwise unknown Chicago recluse, via comments on Walter Benjamin (of whom Agamben is an important interpreter) and his notion of dialectic at a standstill, to discussions of Theodore Adorno, Giovanni Boccaccio (who says: It is quite true that they [nymphs] are all female, but they dont piss), Giordano Bruno and more. Agambens scope will make your head spin. * Classical Journal *

Övrig information

Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series. In 2012, Seagull Books has published Agambens The Church and the Kingdom and The Unspeakable Girl. Kevin McLaughlin is the Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and professor of English, comparative literature, and German studies at Brown University, Providence, RI. He is the author of two books: Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in 19th-Century Literature and Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. He is also cotranslator of Walter Benjamins The Arcades Project. Amanda Minervini teaches Italian Studies at Brown University, Providence, RI.

Innehållsförteckning

Text and Notes

Du kanske gillar