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Infancy and History - On the Destruction of Experience (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Infancy and History - On the Destruction of Experience (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: Radical Thinkers
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How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it
possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience?
For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a
characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the
First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of
Benjamin's complete works, the destruction of experience no longer
needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice.
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.
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