Name: Nudities (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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Author: Giorgio Agamben
ISBN: 9780804769501

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Nudities (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Translated by

David Kishik

Stefan Pedatella

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

136

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.1 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

0804769508

ISBN13

9780804769501

Synopsis "Nudities (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) "

Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinities between the chapters slowly comes into focus. Take another step back, and it becomes another indispensable piece of the finely nuanced philosophy that Agamben has been patiently constructing over four decades of sustained research. If nudity is unconcealment, or the absence of all veils, then Nudities is a series of apertures onto truth. A guiding thread of this collection--weaving together the prophet's work of redemption, the glorious bodies of the resurrected, the celebration of the Sabbath, and the specters that stroll the streets of Venice--is inoperativity, or the cessation of work. The term should not be understood as laziness or inertia, but rather as the paradigm of human action in the politics to come. Itself the result of inoperativity, Nudities shuttles between philosophy and poetry, philological erudition and unexpected digression, metaphysical treatise and critique of modern life. And whether the subject at hand is personal identity or the biometric apparatus, the slanderer or the land surveyor, Kafka or Kleist, every page bears the singular imprint of one of the most astute philosophers of our time.

Giorgio Agamben

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Giorgio Agamben, nacido en Roma en 1942, es uno de los filósofos y teóricos políticos más influyentes de la era contemporánea. Estudió Derecho y Filosofía en la Universidad de Roma y participó en los prestigiosos seminarios de Martin Heidegger en Alemania.Su obra atraviesa la ontología, la estética, la lingüística y la teología, destacando por su profunda investigación sobre la biopolítica y el poder soberano. Su proyecto principal, Homo sacer, analiza cómo el Estado moderno reduce la vida humana a una mera "nuda vida" (vida desnuda) desprovista de derechos, expuesta al poder y sujeta a estados de excepción. Este marco conceptual le ha permitido criticar las democracias contemporáneas y los totalitarismos.A lo largo de su trayectoria, ha sido profesor en la Universidad IUAV de Venecia y en la European Graduate School (Suiza), además de director del Collège International de Philosophie de París.

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