Giorgio Agamben - Böcker

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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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 namely...

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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 namely...

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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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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 Europes greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europes greatest poets, Friedrich Hlderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesnt living me...

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A richly illustrated analysis from one of Europes greatest living philosophers. In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosophers eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi. To Agamben, Pinocchios adventures are a kind of ...

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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 burn...

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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 its less ...

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In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanitys true nature. What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like ...

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A brief study of select Western art from Italys 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 stu...

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One of Europes greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europes greatest poets, Friedrich Hlderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesnt living me...

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A patient, genealogical investigation of the dichotomies that are foundational to the Western philosophical tradition. We are so used to distinguishing between the possible and the real, between essence and existence that we do not realize that th...

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

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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...

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A philosophical study of the testimony of the survivors of Auschwitz. In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by the...

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Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and pol...

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The search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine pure and unmarked signs. The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implie...

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In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency. Alongside and beyond accusations, these texts variously reflect...

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Internationally renowned philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s bold redefinition of methodological inquiry into the human sciences The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies fo...

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Internationally renowned philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s bold redefinition of methodological inquiry into the human sciences The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies fo...

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In 2006, Italian photographer Armin Linke was given a commission by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, and proposed a photographic mapping of all the institutions now housed in various historical buildings in Rome. The result is a p...

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Der Mythos von Kore Persephone, Tochter des Zeus und dessen Schwester, von Hades geraubt, vom Vater vergewaltigt, schuf die Vorstellung eines unberührten und gleichzeitig das alte Wissen in sich vereinenden Mädchens - ein Umstand, der sie in unaus...

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Der Abschluss der großen Homo-Sacer-Reihe - der bedeutendste lebende Philosoph Giorgio Agamben legt den letzten Band seines Lebenswerkes in einer gegenüber der italienischen Originalfassung erweiterten Ausgabe vor. »Mehr als ein Mal hat Agamben Gi...

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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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