Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction by Leland de la Durantaye

Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction Leland de la Durantaye ebook
Page: 486
ISBN: 0804761426, 9780804761420
Format: pdf
Publisher: Stanford University Press

Departing from Agamben's Introducing the figure of the 'workless slave' into the scenario of the Master—Slave dialectic, the article demonstrates how the dialectic of history may be ended in a non-dialectical fashion through inoperative praxis that subtracts itself from the struggle for recognition. ^ See Edmund Husserl, Psychological and transcendental phenomenology and the confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931) (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997). Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. [2] Leland de la Durantaye, “Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor,” in Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2009). Mills' book is much shorter and Durantaye's weighs in at 453 pages. The article presents a conception of the end of history, developed on the basis of Giorgio Agamben's critical engagement with Alexandre Kojève's reading of Hegel. Stanford: Stanford University Press. From now on, the history of metaphysics, stripped of critical archeology, shows a smooth continuity and reveals a sort of perverse anxiousness (according to Agamben) to play with and explore the operative principle of ethics and the concept of virtue as obligation and duty that medieval theology had granted it in heredity. He is the author of Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov (2007) and Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009). The two books under review are Catherine Mills, The Philosophy of Agamben and Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben:A Critical Introduction. Giorgio.Agamben.A.Critical.Introduction.pdf. Rendering absolute the duty of law would have been introduced by Pufendorf more than Hobbes (and this process concludes with Jean Dormat). Leland de la Durantaye is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English at Harvard University.