Name: Taste
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Author: Giorgio Agamben
ISBN: 9781803094489

Type

Physical Book

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Translated by

Cooper Francis

Publisher

Seagull Books

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.7 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

ISBN13

9781803094489

Synopsis "Taste"

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered inferior to actual theoretical knowledge. Taste, Agamben argues, is a category that has much to reveal to the contemporary world. Taking a step into the history of philosophy and reaching to the very origins of aesthetics, Agamben critically recovers the roots of one of Western culture's cardinal concepts. Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and with Taste he turns his critical eye to the realm of Western art and aesthetic practice. This volume will not only engage the author's devoted fans in philosophy, sociology, and literary criticism but also his growing audience among art theorists and historians.

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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