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An Essay on Negation - For a Linguistic Anthropology by Paolo Virno; Lorenzo Chiesa (Translator)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\Italian List Ser.
A vital addition to Seagull's growing Italian List that focuses on leftist Italian thought, bringing famous as well as little-known yet crucial voices into the English language. As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at wo ...Show more
The Kingdom and the Garden by Giorgio Agamben; Adam Kotsko (Translator)
$38.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\Italian List Ser.
What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in The Kingdom and the Garden, Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and the prospects for political transformation. In a tour-de- ...Show more
The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore by Giorgio Agamben
$41.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Italian List
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. Agamben's intuition and meditation are fascinating, a ...Show more
The World Saved by Kids - And Other Epics by Cristina Viti (Translator); Elsa Morante
$40.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: The\Italian List Ser.
First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the 'great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world'. This volume showcases Morante's mast ...Show more
What I Saw, Heard, Learned ... by Giorgio Agamben; Alta L. Price (Translator)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\Italian List Ser.
An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book.What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach us about living better lives? Perhaps it's less a matter of asking what and more a matter of asking how. ...Show more
When the House Burns Down - From the Dialect of Thought by Giorgio Agamben; Kevin Attell (Translator)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\Italian List Ser.
Giorgio Agamben tackles our crisis-ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays. "Which house is burning?" asks Giorgio Agamben. "The country where you live, or Europe, or the whole world? Perhaps the houses, the cities have already burnt down--who knows how long ago?--in a single immense ...Show more
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