Giorgio Agamben's book develops a pathbreaking 'archaeology' of the oath. Via a firsthand survey of Greek and Roman sources which shed light on the nexus of the oath with archaic legislation and acts of condemnation, Agamben recasts the birth of the oath as a decisive event of anthropogenesis, the process by which mankind became humanity.

Sacrament of Language

Giorgio Agamben

History

Polity Press

The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of early Jewish messianism, this book is part of a growing set of recent critiques devoted to the period when Judaism and Christianity were not yet fully distinct, placing Paul in the context of what has been called "Judaeo-Christianity."  Agamben's philosophical exploration of the problem of messianism leads to the other major figure discussed in this book, Walter Benjamin. Advancing a claim without precedent in the vast literature on Benjamin, Agamben argues that Benjamin's philosophy of history constitutes a repetition and appropriation of Paul's concept of "remaining time." Through a close reading and comparison of Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History" and the Pauline Epistles, Agamben discerns a number of striking and unrecognized parallels between the two works.

World

Stanford University Press

In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of early Jewish messianism, this book is part of a growing set of recent critiques devoted to the period when Judaism and Christianity were not yet fully distinct, placing Paul in the context of what has been called "Judaeo-Christianity." Agamben's philosophical exploration of the problem of messianism leads to the other major figure discussed in this book, Walter Benjamin. Advancing a claim without precedent in the vast literature on Benjamin, Agamben argues that Benjamin's philosophy of history constitutes a repetition and appropriation of Paul's concept of "remaining time." Through a close reading and comparison of Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History" and the Pauline Epistles, Agamben discerns a number of striking and unrecognized parallels between the two works.

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The Coming Community (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol. 1) (Theory Out of Bounds Series)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Log 53 asks the simple yet provocative question “Why Italy Now?” The responses are as diverse and multifaceted as the country itself. Exploring this seemingly well-trodden ground, one discovers that because of its historic centrality – and its precarity – Italy remains relevant to the challenges facing architecture today. As contributor Giulia Amoresano writes: “Amid calls today to challenge the Eurocentrism of canonical histories of architecture’s modernity and to work on decolonizing its theories and practices, work needs to be done on what we think canonical spaces are.” Log 53 is guest edited by Alicia Imperiale in New York and Manuel Orazi in Macerata. Essays include philosopher Giorgio Agamben on a Venetian door, theorist Mario Carpo on blight in Piedmont, architect ElDante’ Winston on violence in Bologna, historian Edward Eigen on the Club of Rome, architect Fabrizio Furiassi on the Mafia in Sicily, and reporter Mario Calvo-Platero on colonial architecture in Tripoli. Emilia Giorgi explores unplanned greenery in Rome, while Gabriele Mastrigli highlights the planned greenery of EUR. Iwan Strauven reviews books on Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi, Britt Eversole parses the trove of untranslated Italian theory, and Ingrid D. Rowland details her translation of Vitruvius. Paulette Singley sets the place for Italian cuisine, and Giulia Amoresano sources caffè espresso in the colonization of southern Italy. An Tairan revisits an 18th-century earthquake, Daniele Profeta analyzes the impact of the 19th-century Grand Tour, and Davide Spina exposes the dark side of postwar architecture culture. Greg Lynn talks with art historian Marilyn Aronberg Lavin about her digital analysis of Piero della Francesca, and Patrick Templeton asks writer and podcaster Alex Hochuli about Italy’s political legacy. Log 53 also presents projects by women building in Italy today – Lina Malfona, Elisabetta Terragni, and Maria Alessandra Segantini – as well as in the past – overlooked Neapolitan modernist Stefania Filo Speziale.

Log 53: Why Italy Now?

Greg Lynn

Giulia Amoresano

An Tairan

Mario Calvo-Platero

Mario Carpo

Edward Eigen

Britt Eversole

Fabrizio Furiassi

Emilia Giorgi

Andrea Maglio

Lina Malfona

Gabriele Mastrigli

Daniele Profeta

Ingrid Rowland

Paulette Singley

Davide Spina

Iwan Strauven

ElDante’ Winston

Anyone Corporation

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Arts & Photography

Jacques-Alain Miller

Josefina Ayerza

Éric Laurent

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Bruno de Halleux

Dominique Carpentier

Photography & Video

Wooster Press

Thinking Worlds brings together contributions from a two-stagesymposium organized in conjunction with the second Moscow Biennialof Contemporary Art. The thirteen essays included here look attheoretical issues within the field of contemporary art. What is the roleof the -event- in this culture? Are artistic interventions politicallysignificant? What is the current status of philosophy and aesthetictheory? And in this era of global political change and market forces inwhich art is widely considered to be a part of the society of spectacle,what is the actual status of art and its critical discourses? Contributorsinclude Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Birnbaum and Molly Nesbit.

Thinking Worlds: The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art

Daniel Birnbaum

Molly Nesbit

Sternberg Press / Interros Publishing Program

Démocratie, dans quel état?

Politics & Social Sciences

Jacques Rancière

Jean-Luc Nancy

COLLECTIF

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

ALAIN BADIOU

Daniel Bensaïd

Wendy Brown

Kristin Ross

Social Sciences

ECOSOCIETE

Quando a casa queima (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Publisher

Medios sin fin. Notas sobre la política ( Ensayo) (Spanish Edition)

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