Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

(2)
Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy image
ISBN-10:

0804732779

ISBN-13:

9780804732772

Author(s): Agamben, Giorgio
Edition: 1
Released: Jan 01, 2000
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
Related ISBN: 9780804732789

Description:

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. 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 pure fact of language's existence; history, as it appears from a perspective in which tradition, transmission, and memory reach their messianic fulfillment; and potentiality, understood as a fundamental problem of metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. All these topics converge in the final part of the book, in which Agamben offers an extensive reading of Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a work that puts potentiality and actuality, possibility and reality, in an altogether new light.

Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780804732772




Frequently Asked Questions about Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

You can buy the Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .

The price for the book starts from $43.60 on Amazon and is available from 5 sellers at the moment.

If you’re interested in selling back the Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.

As for the Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.

The Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 8,593,978 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.

Not enough insights yet.