Great Financial Disasters

Murray, Alex

Business & Money

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Giorgio Agamben (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to Guantanamo Bay and the ‘war on terror’.  Alex Murray explains Agamben’s key ideas, including:     an overview of his work from first publication to the present  clear analysis of Agamben’s philosophy of language and life  theories of ethics and ‘witnessing’ the relationship between Agamben’s political writing and his work on aesthetics and poetics.    Investigating the relationship between politics, language, literature, aesthetics and ethics, this guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex nature of modern political and cultural formations.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

<p>The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.</p>

Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

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