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Title: The Man Without Content (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Giorgio Agamben, Georgia Albert ISBN: 0-8047-3554-9 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Genial but a bit too German
Comment: This is the first book by Agamben I have read, and it's quite an impressive encounter. Agamben has a lively historical imagination, and seems comfortable in tracing the manner in which art and the aesthetic has shifted in status and situation from the middle ages to the 20th century. When Agamben is using his native Italian intelligence, he's first-rate. However, when the names Hegel or Heidegger are invoked, the discussion tends to become arid, vaporous, and unnecessarily enamoured of Greek etymons. Frankly, I wish Agamben had never read either of the H's - too much teutonic fog dims even his Latin acuity.
Rating: 5
Summary: Agamben's "aesthetics"
Comment: Giorgio Agamben is quite simply one of the most profound living philosophers and essayists, and this is one of his most illuminating texts. In it, Agamben takes up the question of the status of the work of art in capitalist culture. Much of his critique draws upon Heidegger's later essays on the relationship between technology and art ("The Question Concerning Technology", "What are Poets For?"), attempting to explore the implications of Heidegger's concern that art may have already become "standing reserve." However, this book owes as much to Hannah Arendt's _The Human Condition_, especially her reading of the history of political theory through her trichotomy of labor, work, and action. Throughout his book, however, Agamben takes these ideas in startling new directions, always seeking out new connections between concepts and pushing them to their limits. He also writes in a reasonably clear style, avoiding much of the word-play of contemporary continental philosophy, although it probably won't be very accessible to readers without some understanding of recent continental philosophy. All in all, this might be the most significant contribution to the philosophy of art since Adorno's _Aesthetic Theory_.
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Title: Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen ISBN: 0804732787 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Means Without End: Notes on Politics (Theory Out of Bounds, V. 20) by Giorgio Agamben, Vincenzo Binetti, Cesare Casarino ISBN: 0816630364 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: 13 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Coming Community (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol 1) by Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt ISBN: 0816622353 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen ISBN: 0804732183 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen ISBN: 0804730229 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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