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My own review:
Like the apple - when cut horizontally - reveals a star where we expect the core, Agamben dissects and dismantles our language in new ways (specie, special, species, specchio - genus, genius, geniale, generic) and weaves that all together into poetic theory (with many historical and mythological references) to reveal stuff that is deep inside of us— hidden stuff. I can imagine people like Chomsky rolling their eyes as they flip or swipe the pages, but that makes me like it even more. Agamben is the magician of theory.
Amazon blurb:
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben ponders a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation among genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; and the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon.
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Like the apple - when cut horizontally - reveals a star where we expect the core, Agamben dissects and dismantles our language in new ways (specie, special, species, specchio - genus, genius, geniale, generic) and weaves that all together into poetic theory (with many historical and mythological references) to reveal stuff that is deep inside of us— hidden stuff. I can imagine people like Chomsky rolling their eyes as they flip or swipe the pages, but that makes me like it even more. Agamben is the magician of theory.
Amazon blurb:
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben ponders a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation among genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; and the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon.
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