Author: Patrick O'Connor
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441181709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Profanations
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130562
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple 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 times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben’s singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering — the talking cricket in Pinocchio; “helpers” in Kafka’s novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud. “In Praise of Profanity,” the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130562
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple 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 times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben’s singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering — the talking cricket in Pinocchio; “helpers” in Kafka’s novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud. “In Praise of Profanity,” the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.
Derrida: Profanations
Author: Patrick O'Connor
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441181709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441181709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Knowledge and Profanation
Author: Martin Mulsow
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004398937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004398937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors.
Myth, Society and Profanation
Author: William Pawlett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429581130
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality. This work draws upon European cultural theorists, particularly Schelling, Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille and Baudrillard, to challenge the dominant pejorative view of myth. It argues that myth has been subjected to an intensive process of profanation yet nevertheless is always implicated in society, politics and temporality. The work examines sacred dimensions of myth, the modern myth of desire and some cultural effects of the profanation process. The intended audience is undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429581130
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This work challenges the dominant pejorative view of myth by showing how myth is implicated in the deepest layers of society, politics, individuality and temporality. This work draws upon European cultural theorists, particularly Schelling, Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille and Baudrillard, to challenge the dominant pejorative view of myth. It argues that myth has been subjected to an intensive process of profanation yet nevertheless is always implicated in society, politics and temporality. The work examines sacred dimensions of myth, the modern myth of desire and some cultural effects of the profanation process. The intended audience is undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Profanations
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.
A Discourse on the Institution, Observance and Profanation, of the Sabbath. Delivered at Walpole, N.H., on the National and State Fast, September 9, 1813
Author: Pliny DICKINSON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fast-day sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fast-day sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Duty of Associating Against the Profanation of the Sabbath Day
An Address to the Inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, on the Profanation of the Lord's Day
On Sabbath Profanation; Prevailing forms of the desecration of the Lord's Day, and the duty of Christians in regard to them: being a discourse [on Nehem. xiii. 15-22], etc
Author: John Gordon LORIMER (D.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An association of prayers against blasphemy, swearing and the profanation of Sundays and festivals, tr. from the Fr. by E.G.K. Browne
Author: Association réparatrice des blasphèmes et de la violation du dimanche
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description