Déjà vu and the end of history
By: Paolo Virno ; translated by David Broder
Contributors: Broder, David, translator
Edition: English-language edition.
Series: Verso futures
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781781686126; 9781781686133; 9781781687482
Subjects: History; Philosophy; Methodology; Memory; PHILOSOPHY / Political; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Work titles: Ricordo del presente
Description: "This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea of the "End of History" relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.