Language and Death: The Place of Negativity: 78 (Theory and History of Literature) - Softcover

Agamben, Giorgio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816649235 ISBN 13: 9780816649235

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2006

Synopsis

A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophical and poetic works to examine how these issues have been traditionally explored. Agamben argues that the human being is not just “speaking” and “mortal” but irreducibly “social” and “ethical.”Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. He is the author of Means without End (2000), Stanzas (1993), and The Coming Community (1993), all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Karen E. Pinkus is professor of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University.

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Synopsis

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816649235
• ISBN 13: 9780816649235
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136