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Being Singular Plural

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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 This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.
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Open - Man And Animal

by Giorgio Agamben

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 In "The Open", contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether.
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Care Crosses The River

by Hans Blumenberg

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 In this accessible collection of short meditations on various topics, Blumenberg works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for cluesâ€"metaphors, gestures, anecdotesâ€"essential to grasping human finitude.
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Potentialities - Collected Essays In Philosophy

by Giorgio Agamben

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 The essays in this volume consider figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Hegel; and 20th-century thought, most notably Walter Benjamin, but also Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, the historian Aby Warburg, and the linguist J.-C. Milner.
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Sound Figures

by Theodor W. Adorno

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 Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical.
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Creation And Anarchy - The Work Of Art And The Religion Of Capitalism

by Giorgio Agamben

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 Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the philosophical and political tradition according to which beginning and creation, command and will, together form a strategic apparatus without which our society would fall apart. The five essays collected here aim to deactivate this apparatus through a patient archaeological inquiry into the concepts of work, creation, and command. Giorgio Agamben explores every nuance of the arche in search of an an-archic exit strategy. By the book''s final chapter, anarchy appears as the secret center of power, brought to light so as to make possible a philosophical thought that might overthrow both the principle and its command.
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Karman - A Brief Treatise On Action, Guilt, And Gesture

by Giorgio Agamben

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 What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben''s core insights while breaking significant new ground.
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What Is Philosophy?

by Giorgio Agamben

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 In attempting to answer the question posed by this book''s title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas of philosophical discourse. A summa, of sorts, of Agamben''s thought, the book consists of five essays on five emblematic topics: the Voice, the Sayable, the Demand, the Proem, and the Muse. In keeping with the author''s trademark methodology, each essay weaves together archaeological and theoretical investigations: to a patient reconstruction of how the concept of language was invented there corresponds an attempt to restore thought to its place within the voice; to an unusual interpretation of the Platonic Idea corresponds a lucid analysis of the relationship between philosophy and science, and of the crisis that both are undergoing today. In the end, there is no universal answer to what is an impossible or inexhaustible question, and philosophical writing—a problem Agamben has never ceased to grapple with—assumes the form of a prelude to a work that must remain unwritten.
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Haunting History - For A Deconstructive Approach To The Past

by Ethan Kleinberg

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 This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida.
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Mystery Of Evil - Benedict Xvi And The End Of Days

by Giorgio Agamben

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 Taking Benedict XVI's abdication as his point of departure, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers some reflections on the unresolved dialectics of political theology and the continued relevance of eschatological thinking.
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Yield - Kafka''S Atheological Reformation

by Paul North

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 The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment.
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&Quote;What Is An Apparatus?&Quote; And Other Essays

by Giorgio Agamben

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 The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on the singular relation with one's own time that we call contemporariness.
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Use Of Bodies

by Giorgio Agamben

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 The final volume in Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben's wide-ranging investigation of the foundations of Western politics and culture.
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Poetic Force - Poetry After Kant

by Kevin Mclaughlin

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 This book argues that the theory of force in Kantian aesthetics and further developed by Walter Benjamin is of decisive importance both to nineteenth-century poetry and to the connection between poetry and philosophy over the last two centuries.
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Pilate And Jesus

by Giorgio Agamben

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 A probing investigation of the trial of Jesus by noted Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
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Opus Dei - An Archaeology Of Duty

by Giorgio Agamben

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 In this book, Agamben investigates the roots of the modern moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.
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Messianic Reduction - Walter Benjamin And The Shape Of Time

by Peter Fenves

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 The Messianic Reduction is the first study of Benjamin's early philosophy that takes into consideration the full range of his work, with particular emphasis on its complex relation to phenomenology, Kant and neo-Kantianism, and certain developments in mathematics.
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Life With Mary Shelley

by Barbara Johnson

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 This collection presents the hitherto unpublished last work by deceased literary scholar Barbara Johnson, A Life with Mary Shelley, alongside Johnson's earlier landmark essays on Shelley and incisive new commentary on Johnson's engagement with Shelley by Butler, Felman, Caruth, and Carpenter.
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Kingdom And The Glory - For A Theological Genealogy Of Economy And Government

by Giorgio Agamben e Matteo Mandarini

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 Arguing that Western power is both "government" and "glory," this book reveals the "theological-economic" paradigm at the origin of several of the most important components of modern politics and illuminates the function of consent and the media in today's democracies.
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Inheriting The Future - Legacies Of Kant, Freud, And Flaubert

by Elizabeth Rottenberg

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 This book is an exploration of the notion of "drive" as it passes from Kant's need of reason, to Freud's concept of hallucinatory wish fulfillment, to the relentless force of indifferentiation in Flaubert's Bouvard and PÃ©cuchet.
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In Praise Of Nonsense - Kant And Bluebeard

by Winfried Menninghaus

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 Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense.
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Homo Sacer - Sovereign Power And Bare Life

by Giorgio Agamben

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 One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding.
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Highest Poverty - Monastic Rules And Form-Of-Life

by Giorgio Agamben

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 In this book, Agamben investigates monasticism from its beginnings up through the Franciscan movement in an attempt to find a new form-of-life that escapes from the logic of Western politics as put forth in his Homo Sacer series.
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For Love Of The Father - A Psychoanalytic Study Of Religious Terrorism

by Ruth Stein

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 For Love of the Father provides a psychological explanation of the attraction of destructive and self-destructive fundamentalism in terms of male longings.
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