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Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) 1st Edition

by Giorgio Agamben (Author), Adam Kotsko (Translator)
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Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the philosophical and political tradition according to which beginning and creation, command and will, together form a strategic apparatus without which our society would fall apart.

The five essays collected here aim to deactivate this apparatus through a patient archaeological inquiry into the concepts of work, creation, and command. Giorgio Agamben explores every nuance of the arche in search of an an-archic exit strategy. By the book's final chapter, anarchy appears as the secret center of power, brought to light so as to make possible a philosophical thought that might overthrow both the principle and its command.

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    May 14, 2019
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    Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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    English
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    5.5 x 0.26 x 8.5 inches
  8. Print length
    104 pages
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"Adam Kotsko's lucid translation has continued his service to the field in making Agamben's texts accessible to a wider readership."―Devin Singh, Reading Religion

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Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is What Is Real? (2018).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stanford University Press; 1st edition (May 14, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 150360926X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1503609266
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.26 x 8.5 inches
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Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. He is the author of Profanations (2007), Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (2002), both published by Zone Books, and other books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Solid book
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2020
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Great book, Agamben is the best. Capital as a religion "faith in the market". Credit as a form of faith in the future. very interesting stuff
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Este libro finalmente llegó! !
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E.R. Moorer
5.0 out of 5 stars great book fast delivery
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2019
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agamben rocks.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 和訳本が出ていないので
Reviewed in Japan on December 10, 2020
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仕方ないので本書を購入して、第1章まで読みました。建築大学での講演がもとになっているので、哲学本のしつこさがなく、読み物としての楽しさがあります。「生の形式」というアガンベンの主題が実感できる気がします。
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