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Profanations (Paperback)
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Profanations (Paperback)
Series: Profanations
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Loot Price R541
Discovery Miles 5 410
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Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion,
on what is lost and what remains. The Italian philosopher Giorgio
Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding
their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and
effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time
some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and
film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what
remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the
most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben
ponders a series of literary and philosophical problems: the
relation among genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the
problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived
experience; parody as a literary paradigm; and the potential of
magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes
addressed here attest to the creativity of Agamben's singular mode
of thought and his persistent concern with the act of witnessing,
sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering. "In Praise of
Profanity," the central essay of this short but dense book,
confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task
of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation,
the concept of profanation reorients perceptions of how power,
consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political
modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. Agamben not only
provides a new and potent theoretical model but describes it with a
writerly style that itself forges inescapable links among
literature, politics, and philosophy.
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