Giorgio Agamben

Gebundenes Buch

The Sacrament of Language

An Archaeology of the Oath

Übersetzer: Kotsko, Adam

Beschreibung

In The Sacrament of Language Agamben investigates the phenomenon of the oath, arguing that it points toward a fundamental experience of language that lies at the root of religion and law alike.

Autor

Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and radical political theorist, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. Stanford University Press has published eight of his previous books: Homo Sacer (1998), Potentialities (1999), The Man Without Content (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), The Open (2004), The Time that Remains(2005), "What is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (2009), and, most recently, Nudities (2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780804768979
• ISBN-10: 0804768978
• Artikelnr.: 32738421