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INFANCY AND HISTORY: ON THE DESTRUCTION OF EXPIRIENCE
AGAMBEN G. wydawnictwo: VERSO BOOKS , rok wydania 2007, wydanie I cena netto: 60.00 Twoja cena 57,00 zł + 5% vat - dodaj do koszyka How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an
infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of
experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the
First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works,
the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city
will suffice.
Agamben's profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces
concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Benveniste. In doing so he
elaborates a theory of infancy that throws new light on a number of major themes in
contemporary thought: the anthropological opposition between nature and culture; the
linguistic opposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject and the
appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time and history; the Marxist
notion of base and superstructure (via a careful reading of the famous Adorno–Benjamin
correspondence on Baudelaire's Paris); and the difference between rituals and games.
Beautifully written, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of great interest to
students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and politics.
“Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter
Benjamin.” — Avital Ronell, University of California, Berkeley
Giorgio Agamben teaches at the University of Verona. His works in English include Language
and Death, Stanzas: The Word and the Phantasm in Western Culture and The Community to
Come.
256 pages, Paperback
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