Profanations
By: Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Jeff Fort.
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781890951825
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy
Work titles: Profanazioni
Description: "In Profanations, Agamben has assembled some of his essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our time. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. "In Praise of Profanity," the central essay of this book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Genius; title: Magic and happiness; title: Judgment day; title: The assistants; title: Parody; title: Desiring; title: Special being; title: The author as gesture; title: In praise of profanation; title: The six most beautiful minutes in the history of cinema.