A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical...
The essays in this volume consider figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Hegel; and 20th-century thought, most notably Walter Benjamin, but also Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, the historian Aby Warburg, and the linguist...
This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself.
This translation contains Agamben's recent thinking on some concrete, ethical and political conclusions concerning the state of society today and the place of the individual within it. The work draws both on classical traditions and the philosophy...
Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive...