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Giorgio Agamben (Hardcover)
Alex Murray; Series edited by Robert Eaglestone
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Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial
figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory.
His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to
Guantanamo bay and the a ~war on terrora (TM).
Alex Murray explains Agambena (TM)s key ideas, including:
- an overview of his work from first publication to the
present
- clear analysis of Agambena (TM)s philosophy of language and
life
- theories of ethics and a ~witnessinga (TM)
- the relationship between Agambena (TM)s political writing and
his work on aesthetics and poetics.
Investigating the relationship between politics, language,
literature, aesthetics and ethics, this guide is essential reading
for anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of modern
political and cultural formations.
Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial
figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory.
His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to
Guantanamo Bay and the a ~war on terrora (TM).
Alex Murray explains Agambena (TM)s key ideas, including:
- an overview of his work from first publication to the
present
- clear analysis of Agambena (TM)s philosophy of language and
life
- theories of ethics and a ~witnessinga (TM)
- the relationship between Agambena (TM)s political writing and
his work on aesthetics and poetics.
Investigating the relationship between politics, language,
literature, aesthetics and ethics, this guide is essential reading
for anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of modern
political and cultural formations.
The first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent
movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s. Decadence in the Age of
Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all too
often ends: in 1895. It argues that the decadent principles and
aesthetics of Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Algernon Swinburne, and
others continued to exert a compelling legacy on the next
generation of writers, from high modernists and late decadents to
writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Writers associated with this
decadent counterculture were consciously celebrated but more often
blushingly denied, even as they exerted a compelling influence on
the early twentieth century. Offering a multifaceted critical
revision of how modernism evolved out of, and coexisted with, the
decadent movement, the essays in this collection reveal how
decadent principles infused twentieth-century prose, poetry, drama,
and newspapers. In particular, this book demonstrates the potent
impact of decadence on the evolution of queer identity and
self-fashioning in the early twentieth century. In close readings
of an eclectic range of works by Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and
D. H. Lawrence to Ronald Firbank, Bruce Nugent, and Carl Van
Vechten, these essays grapple with a range of related issues,
including individualism, the end of Empire, the politics of camp,
experimentalism, and the critique of modernity. Contributors:
Howard J. Booth, Joseph Bristow, Ellen Crowell, Nick Freeman, Ellis
Hanson, Kate Hext, Kirsten MacLeod, Kristin Mahoney, Douglas Mao,
Michèle Mendelssohn, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Vincent Sherry
This is a one-stop resource containing introductory material
through to practical case studies in reading primary and secondary
texts to introducing criticism and new directions in research."The
Modernism Handbook" is an accessible and comprehensive introduction
to British Modernism as a literary movement, providing a one-stop
resource for literature students, with the essential information
and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to
developing more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes:
introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key
critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical
approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and
future research; case studies in reading primary and secondary
texts; and annotated further reading (including websites),
timeline, glossary of critical terms.Written in clear language by
leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for anyone
beginning their study of Modernism."Literature and Culture
Handbooks" are an innovative series of guides to major periods,
topics and authors in British and American literature and culture.
Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for
literature students, each handbook provides the essential
information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course
through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills.
This monograph undertakes the first extensive comparative analysis
of the works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, placing the
fiction and non-fiction of both writers in relation to the broader
cultural, social and political contexts of London from 1979. It
begins by tracing the two different Londons of both writers,
arguing that their literary and cultural projects are intrinsically
linked, yet have remained under explored in academic criticism.
Alex Murray argues that while both Sinclair and Ackroyd attempt to
utilise radical narrative practices to challenge the dominant
historical discourses within contemporary London, those challenges
must be placed in relation to broader issues of cultural history,
government appropriation of historical narratives and debates about
the relationship between literature and the city. This argument is
traced from the 'radical' historical fiction of the 1980s which
launched the career of both writers, through to their extensive
bodies of work on creating a specifically London form of literary
history, to their engagements towards the turn of the millennium
with larger questions of historiography and material history. This
study then links these issues of narrative and material history,
demonstrating the increasingly problematic relationship that both
writers have as their fictionally 'radical' recalling of London is
transformed into issues of material history, primarily the issues
of politics and ethics in historical representation, and the
relationship between history and commodification.
British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional
morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of
art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at
odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this
counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and
elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de
siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth
examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism,
arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives
to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatives turned to
the past to uncover values and models of social organisation that
could offer stability in a chaotic world. From well-known figures
such as Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, through to the forgotten
editors of short-lived periodicals, important female aesthetes such
as Michael Field, and politicians such as Arthur Balfour, Decadent
Conservatism challenges conventional understandings of the
relationship between aesthetics, politics, and the past in
late-Victorian Britain. Through a series of thematic chapters
exploring the alternative communities created by little magazines,
the politics of Individualism, investments in monarchy and
religion, Folk Decadence, and jingoistic and nationalist responses
to the Second Anglo-Boer war, this study offers a new, and much
messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics. It will be of
interest to those working on Victorian literature and modernism, as
well as social, political, and cultural history of the period
1880-1920.
The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work to be published
in English. This collection of essays, including one by Simondon
himself, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the
implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his
relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and
Canguilhem.Complete with a contextualising introduction and a
glossary of technical terms, it offers an entry point to this
important thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy,
philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political
philosophy.Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence
in America and around the Anglophone world, having been of great
importance in France for many years.
Agamben's vocabulary is both expansive and idiosyncratic, with
words such as 'infancy', 'gesture' and 'profanation' given specific
and complex meanings that can bewilder the new reader. Bringing
together leading scholars in the field, including Steven DeCaroli
(Goucher College, Baltimore), Justin Clemens (University of
Melbourne), Claire Colebrook (Penn State) and Steven DeCaroli
(Goucher College, Baltimore) the 150 entries explain the key
concepts in Agamben's work and his relationship with other
thinkers, from Aristotle to Aby Warburg.
This is a one-stop resource containing introductory material
through to practical case studies in reading primary and secondary
texts to introducing criticism and new directions in research."The
Modernism Handbook" is an accessible and comprehensive introduction
to British Modernism as a literary movement, providing a one-stop
resource for literature students, with the essential information
and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to
developing more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes:
introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key
critics, concepts and topics; an overview of major critical
approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and
future research; case studies in reading primary and secondary
texts; and, annotated further reading (including websites),
timeline, glossary of critical terms.Written in clear language by
leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for anyone
beginning their study of Modernism."Literature and Culture
Handbooks" are an innovative series of guides to major periods,
topics and authors in British and American literature and culture.
Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for
literature students, each handbook provides the essential
information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course
through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills.
More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that
philosophy is also a matter of style and politics a matter of
poetics. This book explores the unexpected and illuminating paths
that his work traces across the territories of law and literature,
linguistics, dance or cinema, in search of a new idea and practice
of the community. It offers an irreplaceable introduction to one of
the most fascinating thinkers of our time.'Jacques
RanciereGathering some of the most important established and
emerging scholars to examine his body of work, this collection of
essays seeks to explore Agamben's thought from these broader
philosophical and literary concerns, underpinning its place within
larger debates in continental philosophy. Including a contribution
by Agamben himself, it is essential reading for anyone interested
in his work.In the past five years, Giorgio Agamben has emerged as
one of the most important continental philosophers. This burgeoning
popularity of his work has largely been confined to a study of the
homo sacer series. Yet these later 'political' works have their
foundation in Agamben's earlier works on the philosophy of
language, aesthetics and literature. From a philosophy of language
and linguistics that leads to a broader theory of representation,
Agamben develops a critical theory that attempts to explore the
hiatuses and paradoxes that govern discursive practice across a
broad range of disciplines."
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