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On Contemporaneity, after Agamben - The Concept and its Times (Paperback)
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On Contemporaneity, after Agamben - The Concept and its Times (Paperback)
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Who are our contemporaries today? Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, or
Giorgio Agamben, or the already neglected Althusser or
Lacoue-Labarthe? From among the thinkers of the last great
generation of the past century, who are the precursors whose voice
is strong enough to speak to our present today? when the nature of
time itself is uncertain: a time of mutation (Nancy), a change of
epoch (Blanchot), an epoch without an epoch (Stiegler), or more
catastrophically, the time of the geocide (Deguy)? Is it Bataille
(Inner Experience) or Blanchot (The Writing of the Disaster) who
anticipates the future that is already our present? Or Derrida who
announced the unsurpassable dilemma of the law of hospitality?
Announced a future to be presented only as a monstrosity? Or is it
rather Deleuze, whose geo-philosophy already dispenses with the
subject, privileges matter over spirit, and subordinates the great
movements of peoples and animals of history and revolution, the
political and the social as relative to the de- re-territorializing
powers of the forces of the Earth? Or again, is it not philosophy
but rather art that measures up to the intensity of the forces
pressing against us in the present? The exhausted prose of Beckett,
the broken verse of Celan? The stammer of Artaud? These are some of
the questions that animate the writing in the aftermath of
Agamben's influential essay What is the Contemporary?
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