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Infancy and history : on the destruction of experience / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Liz Heron.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Radical thinkers ; 14.Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2007Description: 167 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1844675718
  • 9781844675715
Other title:
  • On the destruction of experience
Uniform titles:
  • Infanzia e storia. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Infancy and history.DDC classification:
  • 901 22
LOC classification:
  • D16.8 A4813 2007
Summary: "A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject. How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice."--Publisher's website.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 901 AGA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A554259B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 901 AGA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A373964B

"First published as Infanzia e storia by Giulio Einaudi Editore in 1978 ; this ed. first published by Verso 1993"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject. How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience” was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works, the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice."--Publisher's website.

In English, translated from the Italian.

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