Name: Studiolo
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Author: Giorgio Agamben
ISBN: 9781803093680

Type

Physical Book

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Translated by

Alberto Toscano

Publisher

Seagull Books

Language

English

Pages

130

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.1 x 13.0 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781803093680

Synopsis "Studiolo"

A brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its author, Giorgio Agamben, as he turns his philosophical lens on the world of Western art. Studiolo is a fascinating take on a selection of artworks created over millennia; some are easily identifiable, others rarer. Though they were produced over an arc of time stretching from 5000 BCE to the present, only now have they achieved their true legibility. Agamben contends that we must understand that the images bequeathed by the past are really addressed to us, here and now; otherwise, our historical awareness is broken. Notwithstanding the attention to detail and the critical precautions that characterize the author's method--they provoke us with a force, even a violence, that we cannot escape. When we understand why Dostoevsky feared losing his faith before Holbein's Body of the Dead Christ, when Chardin's Still Life with Hare is suddenly revealed to our gaze as a crucifixion or Twombly's sculpture shows that beauty must ultimately fall, the artwork is torn from its museological context and restored to its almost prehistoric emergence. These artworks are beautifully reproduced in color throughout Agamben's short but significant addition to his scholarly oeuvre in English translation.

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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