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"Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin." - Avrital Ronell, University of California, Berkeley"
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How andwhy did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible totalk of an infancy of experience, a dumb experience? For WalterBenjamin, the poverty of experience was a characteristic ofmodernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. ForGiorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin s complete works, thedestruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life inany modern city will suffice.
Agamben'sprofound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everydaylife traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl andBenveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throwsnew light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: theanthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguisticopposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject andthe appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time andhistory; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a carefulreading of the famous Adorno Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire'sParis); and the difference between rituals and games.
Beautifullywritten, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of greatinterest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology andpolitics.
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This relatively short book reads like a collection of essays rather than a unified whole. Agamben is clearly very intelligent and a good writer, but I am not convinced that he is the 'next great critical theorist' many claim him to be.
The best chapter here is about a series of letters between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Agamben argues in favor of Benjamin's method, a view I'm partial to. There are other interesting moments throughout but also a lot of grappling with the canon, a necessary task for professional Continental Philosophers, perhaps, but not necessarily compelling reading for the rest of us.
This book could be read alongside Derrida's 'The Politics of Friendship'.
The best chapter here is about a series of letters between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Agamben argues in favor of Benjamin's method, a view I'm partial to. There are other interesting moments throughout but also a lot of grappling with the canon, a necessary task for professional Continental Philosophers, perhaps, but not necessarily compelling reading for the rest of us.
This book could be read alongside Derrida's 'The Politics of Friendship'.
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