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Time, Language, and Visuality in Agamben's Philosophy

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  1. Jenny Doussan

    1. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. That Obscure Object of Will

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Problem with Metaphysics: Taking Place

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 5-47

  4. From Means Without End to the State of Exception

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 48-96

  5. From the Meta- to the Para-: On Method

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 97-147

  6. Cat-and-Mouse Game

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 148-197

  7. Tabula Ocularia

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 198-219

  8. Coda

    • Jenny Doussan
    Pages 220-222

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 223-233
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About this book

Giorgio Agamben, a philosopher both celebrated and reviled, is among the prominent voices in contemporary Italian thought today. His work, which touches upon fields as diverse as aesthetics and biopolitics, is often understood within a framework of Aristotelian potentiality. With this incisive critique, Doussan identifies a different tendency in the philosopher's work, an engagement with the problem of time that is inextricably bound up with language and visuality. Founded in his early writings on metaphysics and continuing to his present occupation with inoperativity, Time, Language and Visuality in Agamben's Philosophy forges an original path through Agamben's extensive commentary on the linguistic and the visual to illuminate the recurrent temporal theme of capture and evasion the cat-and-mouse game that bears the foundational violence of not just representation but concept-formation itself. In the process, Doussan both reveals its limit and establishes a ground for future engagements.

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  • Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

    Jenny Doussan

About the author

Jenny Doussan is a scholar based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is author of 'Eros, Plague, Olfaction: Three Allegories of the Curatorial' in The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating.

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