Agamben, Giorgio
Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780804732789
- author:
- Agamben, Giorgio
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1999
- Pages:
- 328
- Genre:
- Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Giorgio Agamben's Potentialities collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning over twenty years. The book introduces Agamben's work within the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought, setting the stage for a series of theoretical confrontations with influential thinkers. The collection is organized around three fundamental concepts: language as the pure fact of speech, history as the messianic fulfillment of tradition, transmission, and memory, and potentiality as a problem in metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of language. These topics converge in the final part of the book, where Agamben offers an extensive reading of Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener". This collection provides insight into Agamben's philosophical thought and its connections to various intellectual traditions.
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