Potentialities Collected Essays in Philosophy

Name: Potentialities Collected Essays in Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780804732789

ISBN-10: 0804732787

ISBN-13: 9780804732789

Edition: 1999

Authors: Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen

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This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hitherto published in any language, and all but one apear in English for the first time. The essays consider figures in the history of philosophy.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for hisï¿½Homo Sacerï¿½series.ï¿½He recently retired from theï¿½Universitï¿½ Iuav di Venezia.



Editor's Note


Editor's Introduction: "To Read What Was Never Written"



Language



The Thing Itself



The Idea of Language



Language and History: Linguistic and Historical Categories in Benjamin's Thought



Philosophy and Linguistics



Kommerell, or On Gesture



History



Aby Warburg and the Nameless Science



Tradition of the Immemorial



*Se: Hegel's Absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis



Walter Benjamin and the Demonic: Happiness and Historical Redemption



The Messiah and the Sovereign: The Problem of Law in Walter Benjamin



Potentiality



On Potentiality



The Passion of Facticity



Pardes: The Writing of Potentiality



Absolute Immanence



Contingency



Bartleby, or On Contingency


Notes


Index of Names