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Agamben's Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art (Paperback)
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Agamben's Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian
concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications.
The book discovers within The Use of Bodies a philosophical path to
Agamben's "ontology of nudity," as it is subtended by his notion of
the messianic-a dual temporality of form in motion reflected in the
image of a whirlpool that is autonomous although no drop of water
belongs to it separately. Drawn from Paul and Benjamin (rather than
Derrida), Agamben's messianic is elaborated in this study through
its embodiment in literature-Woolf's To the Lighthouse, James's The
Aspern Papers, Brodsky's Watermark, and Mann's Death in Venice-in
response to Agamben's insistence on the wedding of poetry and
philosophy. In particular, Coetzee's Disgrace gives poetic form to
Agamben's focus on the dissolution of the human/animal border, the
salvation of the unsavable, and "nudity"-all to illustrate
Agamben's Open without a closedness. This text shows how art serves
as the house of philosophy also by taking up the nude in visual
art, making the case that, in comprising chronos and kairos (the
two messianic components of Agamben's ontology of nudity), art
demonstrates the constitution of form-of-life for the viewer.
Emphasizing Agamben's privileged non-unveilability/nudity, this
book finally examines two major missed encounters, with Heidegger
and Lacan, philosophers of the veil. Veiling to Agamben correlates
with the sovereignty/bare life structure of the exception, which
his ontology of nudity is meant to deactivate-as there is no such
thing as a bare life.
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