The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life by Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, Alex Murray

By Justin Clemens, Nicholas Heron, Alex Murray

Greater than the other philosopher, Giorgio Agamben exhibits us that philosophy can be an issue of favor and politics a question of poetics. This publication explores the unforeseen and illuminating paths that his paintings strains around the territories of legislation and literature, linguistics, dance or cinema, looking for a brand new inspiration and perform of the group. It bargains an irreplaceable advent to at least one of the main interesting thinkers of our time.'Jacques RancièreGathering one of the most vital verified and rising students to check his physique of labor, this selection of essays seeks to discover Agamben's inspiration from those broader philosophical and literary matters, underpinning its position inside of better debates in continental philosophy. together with a contribution via Agamben himself, it's crucial interpreting for somebody drawn to his work.In the prior 5 years, Giorgio Agamben has emerged as the most vital continental philosophers. This burgeoning approval for his paintings has principally been limited to a research of the homo sacer sequence. but those later 'political' works have their origin in Agamben's previous works at the philosophy of language, aesthetics and literature. From a philosophy of language and linguistics that results in a broader concept of illustration, Agamben develops a severe idea that makes an attempt to discover the hiatuses and paradoxes that govern discursive perform throughout a large variety of disciplines.

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12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 5/9/08 08:27 Page 41 41 this volume, the essay, written originally in French, and the translation by Kerstin Behnke, have both been revised by the author. Agamben, Idea of Prose, p. 41. Italian edition quoted: Giorgio Agamben, Idea della Prosa (Milan: Feltrinelli 1985), p. 23. Inasmuch as enjambement, the distinctive trait of poetry according to Agamben, denotes a ‘passage of prose’, poetry lets itself be carried towards an ‘idea of prose’ that cannot be reduced to prose or to poetry, to the (philosophical) meaning or to that which limits and transforms the signifying function in the poem: ‘By this headlong dive into the abyss of meaning, the purely sonic unity of verse transgresses its own identity as it does its own measure,’ Agamben, Idea of Prose, p.

12. K. (every man) slanders himself in order to subtract himself from the law, from the accusation that it seems inevitably to address to him and from which it is not possible escape (simply to declare oneself innocent, the prison chaplain says to him at a certain point, is what the guilty usually do). qxd:Andy Q7 K 5/9/08 08:27 Page 21 21 has its roots in the self-slander of individuals and yet presents itself as a power foreign and superior to them. It is in this sense that we must read the parable on the door of the law, which the priest recounts to K.

59. 1 Is the constellation of ideas that it forms the product of a poetic vocation or of a thought that seeks to liberate truth from its linguistic reification? This question, the question of the relationship between philosophy and poetry, between meaning and melos, between a prose whose implicit philosophical determination regulates the effects of its signifying function and a poetry whose purely sonorous and rhythmic dimension seems to resist any translation – this question is also explicitly raised in the fragment or aphorism that bears the same title as the book itself, ‘Idea of Prose’.

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