The Adventure
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- Hardcover
104 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2018
Summary
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one’s life as an adventure-not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262037594 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262037599 |
| Author: | Giorgio Agamben, Lorenzo Chiesa |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 102mm x 8mm |
| Series: | The Adventure |
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About The Author
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer- Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz- The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things- On Method (the last three published by Zone Books), and other books.Lorenzo Chiesa is Director of the Genoa School of Humanities and the author of Subjectivity and Otherness- A Philosophical Reading of Lacan and The Not-Two- Logic and God in Lacan, both published by the MIT Press.
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