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Time, Language, and Visuality in Agamben's Philosophy
Jenny Doussan
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Hardcover. This penetrating critique forges a path through Agamben's extensive commentary on time, language, and visuality, revealing its limit and establishing a ground for future engagements. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Giorgio Agamben, a philosopher both celebrated and reviled, is among the prominent voices in contemporary Italian thought today. His work, which touches upon fields as diverse as aesthetics and biopolitics, is often understood within a framework of Aristotelian potentiality. With this incisive critique, Doussan identifies a different tendency in the philosopher's work, an engagement with the problem of time that is inextricably bound up with language and visuality. Founded in his early writings on metaphysics and continuing to his present occupation with inoperativity, Time, Language and Visuality in Agamben's Philosophy forges an original path through Agamben's extensive commentary on the ... Read more
Giorgio Agamben, a philosopher both celebrated and reviled, is among the prominent voices in contemporary Italian thought today. His work, which touches upon fields as diverse as aesthetics and biopolitics, is often understood within a framework of Aristotelian potentiality. With this incisive critique, Doussan identifies a different tendency in the philosopher's work, an engagement with the problem of time that is inextricably bound up with language and visuality. Founded in his early writings on metaphysics and continuing to his present occupation with inoperativity, Time, Language and Visuality in Agamben's Philosophy forges an original path through Agamben's extensive commentary on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137286239
SKU
V9781137286239
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99-15
About Jenny Doussan
Jenny Doussan is a scholar based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is author of 'Eros, Plague, Olfaction: Three Allegories of the Curatorial' in The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating.
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