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  Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers) (Paperback) By (author) Giorgio Agamben

  

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  Short Description for Infancy and HistoryPresents radical meditation on language and philosophy.
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  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Published: 14 December 2006
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Philosophy Of Language | Social & Political Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9781844675715 ISBN 10: 1844675718
  • Sales rank: 37,327

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• How andwhy did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible totalk of an infancy of experience, a dumb experience? For WalterBenjamin, the poverty of experience was a characteristic ofmodernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. ForGiorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin s complete works, thedestruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life inany modern city will suffice.Agamben'sprofound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everydaylife traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl andBenveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throwsnew light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: theanthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguisticopposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject andthe appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time andhistory; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a carefulreading of the famous Adorno Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire'sParis); and the difference between rituals and games.Beautifullywritten, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of greatinterest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology andpolitics.