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Language and Death: The Place of Negativity Volume 78 - Agamben, Giorgio, and Pinkus, Karen (Translated by), and Hardt, Michael (Translated by)
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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 ...

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Language and Death: The Place of Negativity Volume 78 2006, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816649235

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