
Infancy and History
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Agamben's profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Benveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throws new light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: the anthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguistic opposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject and the appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time and history; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a careful reading of the famous Adorno-Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire's Paris); and the difference between rituals and games.
Beautifully written, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of great interest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and politics.
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- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Translator's Note
- Preface: Experimentum Linguae
- Infancy and History: An Essay on the Destruction of Experience
- In Playland: Reflections on History and Play
- Time and History: Critique of the Instant and the Continuum
- The Prince and the Frog: The Question of Method in Adorno and Benjamin
- Fable and History: Considerations on the Nativity Crib
- Notes on Gesture
- Notes
- Project for a Review
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