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(3.57) | None | 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.… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Tal como em Profanação, Giorgio Agamben reúne neste livro um conjunto de breves ensaios relacionados com temas actuais da sua investigação. Estes vão da festa que o autor relaciona com a bulimia contemporânea até à nudez, cujas ligações com a teologia são analisadas.
Outros temas abordados por Agamben são o do corpo glorioso do beato que tem estômago e órgãos sexuais e que, no entanto, não se alimenta e não faz amor, ou então, a nova figura da identidade pessoal que os dispositivos biométricos estão a impor à humanidade.
O ponto de fuga para que convergem todos estes temas é o da inactividade, entendida não como ócio ou inércia, mas como paradigma da acção humana e de uma nova polÃtica.
O pensamento de Agamben percorre assim uma espécie de terra de ninguém, movendo-se através de uma escrita que vai delineando um universo próprio, feito de pensamento, literatura e de incursões na filologia, situando-se entre o apontamento metafÃsico e as anotações sobre os costumes mais recentes.
Tal como em Profanação, Giorgio Agamben reúne neste livro um conjunto de breves ensaios relacionados com temas actuais da sua investigação. Estes vão da festa que o autor relaciona com a bulimia contemporânea até à nudez, cujas ligações com a teologia são analisadas.
Outros temas abordados por Agamben são o do corpo glorioso do beato que tem estômago e órgãos sexuais e que, no entanto, não se alimenta e não faz amor, ou então, a nova figura da identidade pessoal que os dispositivos biométricos estão a impor à humanidade.
O ponto de fuga para que convergem todos estes temas é o da inactividade, entendida não como ócio ou inércia, mas como paradigma da acção humana e de uma nova polÃtica.
O pensamento de Agamben percorre assim uma espécie de terra de ninguém, movendo-se através de uma escrita que vai delineando um universo próprio, feito de pensamento, literatura e de incursões na filologia, situando-se entre o apontamento metafÃsico e as anotações sobre os costumes mais recentes.  | |
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The ones who can call themselves contemporary are only those who do not allow themselves to be blinded by the lights of the century and so manage to get a glimpse of the shadows in those lights, of their intimate obscurity. Having said this much, we have nevertheless still not addressed our question. Why should we be at all interested in perceiving the obscurity that emanates from the epoch? Is darkness not precisely an anonymous experience that is by definition impenetrable, something that is not directed at us and thus cannot concern us? On the contrary, the contemporary is the person who perceives the darkness of his time as something that concerns him, as something that never ceases to engage him. Darkness is something that – more than any light – turns directly and singularly toward him. The contemporary is the one whose eyes are struck by the beam of darkness that comes from his own time.