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The Fire and the Tale
Giorgio Agamben
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Description for The Fire and the Tale
Paperback. This latest collection of texts, which focus on the "mystery" of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power, offer a window onto Giorgio Agamben's most current research. Translator(s): Chiesa, Lorenzo. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4522 x 2921. .
What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace. The ten essays brought together here cover works by figures ranging from Aristotle to Paul Klee and illustrate what urgently drives Agamben's current research. As ... Read more
What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenaciously resists creation, thereby giving each work its strength and grace. The ten essays brought together here cover works by figures ranging from Aristotle to Paul Klee and illustrate what urgently drives Agamben's current research. As ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9781503601642
SKU
V9781503601642
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About Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is The Use of Bodies (2016).
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