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Author: Giorgio Agamben
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0804732787

Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Get Potentialities literature books for free.
The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confrontations with privileged figures in the history of philosophy, politics, and criticism, from Plato to Spinoza, Aristotle to Deleuze, Carl Schmitt to Benjamin, Hegel to Aby Warburg, and Heidegger to Derrida. Three fundamental concepts organize the collection as a whole: language, in the sense not of particular statements but rather the very taking place of speech, the Check Potentialities our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought Three fundamental concepts organize the collection as a whole: language, in the sense not of particular statements but rather the very taking place of speech, the

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