E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Epub
Reihe: Radical Thinkers
On the Destruction of Experience
E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Epub
Reihe: Radical Thinkers
ISBN: 978-1-78960-275-3
Verlag: Verso UK
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Agamben's profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Benveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throws new light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: the anthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguistic opposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject and the appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time and history; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a careful reading of the famous Adorno-Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire's Paris); and the difference between rituals and games.
Beautifully written, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of great interest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and politics.