Potentialities : collected essays in philosophy
Giorgio Agamben (Author), Daniel Heller-Roazen (Editor, Author of introduction, etc.)
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.
Print Book, English, impr. 1999
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), impr. 1999
1 vol. (x-307 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm.
9780804732772, 9780804732789, 0804732779, 0804732787
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Editor's note Editor's introduction Part I. Language: 1. The thing itself 2. The idea of language 3. Language and history: linguistic and historical categories in Benjamin's thought 4. Philosophy and linguistics 5. Kommerell, or on gesture Part II. History: 6. Aby Warburg and the nameless science 7. Tradition of the immemorial 8. *Se: Hegel's absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis 9. Walter Benjamin and the demonic: happiness and historical redemption 10. The messiah and the sovereign: the problem of law in Walter Benjamin Part III. Potentiality: 11. On potentiality 12. The passion of facticity 13. Pardes: the writing of potentiality 14. Absolute immanence Part IV. Contingency: 15. Bartleby, or on contingency Notes Index of names.
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