About this title: A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophical and poetic works to examine how these issues have been traditionally explored. Agamben argues that the human being is not just "speaking" and "mortal" but irreducibly "social" and "ethical." Giorgio Agamben teaches ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780816649235ISBN:0816649235
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean text, tight binding, minor shelf wear to cover/corners, nice reading copy, help support independent booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Theory and History of Literature, 78. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780816619375ISBN:0816619379
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Description: Fine. 0816619379 Univ of Minnesota Press trade paperback, 1991, clean/tight & unmarked, slight surface wear only (like new)...ed in a Box. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780816649235ISBN:0816649235
Description: New. A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophic... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13:9780816649235ISBN:0816649235
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