When the Word Becomes Flesh
Language and Human Nature
$35.25
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2015
Summary
Virno’s meditation on speech as an intrinsically political practice mediating between biological invariants and changing historical determinations.Originally published in Italian in 2002, When the Word Becomes Flesh provides a compelling contribution to the understanding of language and its relation to human nature and social relationships. Adopting Aristotle’s definition of the human being as a linguistic and political animal, Paolo Virno frames the act of speech as a foundational philosophi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350941 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350946 |
| Author: | Paolo Virno, Giuseppina Mecchia |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
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As befits the author’s impressive educational and professional background, Rational Action is scholarly, elegantly written, and well organized.
…a book filled with piercing insights and a spell-binding constellation of ideas about the speaking animal and its history – and how knowing more about both helps us to make sense of our contemporary world.
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Paolo Virno
Paolo Virno is an Italian philosopher, semiologist, and a prominent figure among the Italian Postfordist thinkers. He currently teaches at the University of Rome and is the author of A Grammar of the Multitude and Multitude Between Innovation and Negation, both published in English by Semiotext(e).
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