Giorgio Agamben - Böcker

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without l...

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Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning ...

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The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays. Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into ...

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What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called "first philosophy" or "metaphysics"? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest - ...

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What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics ? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest namel...

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What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics ? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest namel...

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Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world. Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflec...

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Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world. Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflec...

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How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "e;dumb"e; experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "e;poverty of experience"e; was a characteristic of modernity, origina...

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One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn't livin...

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A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. ¿ In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher's eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi. To Agamben, Pinocchio's adventures are a kin...

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Giorgio Agamben tackles our crisis-ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays. ¿ "Which house is burning?" asks Giorgio Agamben. "The country where you live, or Europe, or the whole world? Perhaps the houses, the cities have already...

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An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach us about living better lives? Perhaps it's less...

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A brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of st...

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One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn't livin...

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Italian philosopher¿Giorgio¿Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered inferior to actual theoretical knowledge.¿ Taste...

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An erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe's greatest living philosophers.¿ This book explores how early modern authors broke linguistic boundaries, creating new words and languages that challenged tradi...

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An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped history, politics, and thought. What does it mean to have a voice-and how does it shape what it means to be human? In The Human Vo...

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Distinguished philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers an archaeological inquiry into the problem of scriptural interpretation.¿ The problem of interpreting Scripture-above all, sacred scripture, but ultimately any form of writing-coincides with the ver...

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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 ...

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Der neue Band des Homo-Sacer-ProjektsWas wird aus der Regel, wenn sie im Leben restlos aufzugehen scheint? Und was aus einem Menschenleben, wenn seine Gesten, seine Worte und sein Schweigen von der Regel nicht mehr zu unterscheiden sind?In Fortsch...

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Neben seinen groÿen Büchern hat der international bekannte Philosoph Giorgio Agamben kleinere Texte und Essays verfasst, die ebenso nachhaltig die jeweiligen Diskussionen beflügelt haben. Die wichtigsten aus den letzten 20 Jahren hat er in eine...

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