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Book Title
Profanations
Publication Name
Profanations
Title
Profanations
Author
Giorgio Agamben
Translator
Jeff Fort
Contributor
Jeff Fort (Translated by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1890951838
EAN
9781890951832
ISBN
9781890951832
Publisher
Zone Books
Genre
Art, Philosophy
Release Date
02/03/2015
Release Year
2015
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Criticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics, Essays
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Number of Pages
102 Pages

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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations , Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben's singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering -- the talking cricket in Pinocchio; "helpers" in Kafka's novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells's infamous object of obsession Rosebud. "In Praise of Profanity," the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation -- as both the "return to common usage" and "sacrifice" -- reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.

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Publisher
Zone Books
ISBN-10
1890951838
ISBN-13
9781890951832
eBay Product ID (ePID)
206001380

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Book Title
Profanations
Author
Giorgio Agamben
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Criticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics, Essays
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Art, Philosophy
Number of Pages
102 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Bh39
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
Whether this will be your first, fourth, or fourteenth experience reading essays by Giorgio Agamben, you will find his most recent collection, Profanations , to be of enormous use., Superficially, this collection of essays appears charmingly miscellaneous. But across the divergence of theme and style, a subtle consistency builds between the different pieces. . . . It is a luminous and delightful book, sometimes sad and yearning, at others joyful with the busy concentration of a child.
Copyright Date
2007
Dewey Decimal
111/.85
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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