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Potentialities - Collected Essays in Philosophy (Paperback)
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Potentialities - Collected Essays in Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hitherto published in any
language. With one exception, the fifteen essays, which reflect the
wide range of the author's interests, appear in English for the
first time.
The essays consider figures in the history of philosophy (such as
Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Hegel) and twentieth-century thought
(most notably Walter Benjamin, but also Heidegger, Derrida,
Deleuze, the historian Aby Warburg, and the linguist J.-C. Milner).
They also examine several general topics that have always been of
central concern to Agamben: the relation of linguistic and
metaphysical categories; messianism in Islamic, Jewish, and
Christian theology; and the state and future of contemporary
politics. Despite the diversity of the texts collected here, they
show a consistent concern for a set of overriding philosophical
themes concerning language, history, and potentiality.
In the first part of the book, Agamben brings philosophical texts
of Plato and Benjamin, the literary criticism of Max Kommerell, and
the linguistic studies of J.-C. Milner to bear upon a question that
exposes each discipline to a limit at which the possibility of
language itself is at stake. The essays in the second part concern
a body of texts that deal with the structure of history and
historical reflection, including the idea of the end of history in
Jewish and Christian messianism, as well as in Hegel, Benjamin, and
Aby Warburg. In the third part, the issues confronted in the first
and second parts are shown to be best grasped as issues of
potentiality. Agamben argues that language and history are
structures of potentiality and can be most fully understood on the
basis of the Aristotelian theory of "dynamis" and its medieval
elaborations. The fourth part is an extensive essay on Herman
Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
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