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by Giorgio Agamben (Author), Karen Pinkus (Translator)

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Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (10 Sep 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0816649235
ISBN-13: 978-0816649235
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.7 x 0.8 cm
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Agamben (philosophy, Coll ge International de Philosophie in Paris and U. of Macerata in Italy) has synthesized the ideas and materials presented at a seminar held in 1979 and 1980 in which he was one of five participants. He explores the relation between language and death as it surfaces at certain decisive moments in Western philosophy, particula

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