Multitude between Innovation and Negation (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
Contributors: Isabella Bertoletti (Translator); James Cascaito (Translator); Andrea Casson (Translator)
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: April 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781584350507
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; General; Political; Philosophy / General; Philosophy
Description: "Multitude between Innovation and Negation offers three essays that take the reader on a journey through the political philosophy of language. Virno unravels the infinite potential and wonders of everyday linguistic praxis and ambiguity. Wit, he argues, is a public performance, and its modus operandi characterizes human action in a state of emergency; it is a reaction, an articulate response, and a possible solution to a state of crisis. Virno challenges the distinction between the state of nature and civil society and argues for a political institution that resembles language in its ability to be at once nature and history."--book jacket.