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Creation and Anarchy - The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Hardcover)
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Creation and Anarchy - The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western
culture, where God commands the world into existence and later
issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or
origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the
first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for
theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and
continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the
philosophical and political tradition according to which beginning
and creation, command and will, together form a strategic apparatus
without which our society would fall apart. The five essays
collected here aim to deactivate this apparatus through a patient
archaeological inquiry into the concepts of work, creation, and
command. Giorgio Agamben explores every nuance of the arche in
search of an an-archic exit strategy. By the book's final chapter,
anarchy appears as the secret center of power, brought to light so
as to make possible a philosophical thought that might overthrow
both the principle and its command.
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