SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art
- 208 pages
- English
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SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art
About This Book
Offering, for the first time, a full historicized accounting of philosophical archaeology, Ido Govrin delineates how this overarching method of historical inquiry has today become associated, to a large extent, with the work of Giorgio Agambenâand how it constitutes Agamben's philosophy of history in particular. As befits a book situated at an intellectual crossroads that brings together a range of discoursesâphilosophy, history, aesthetics, theology, and philologyâGovrin conceives of philosophical archaeology as a multifaceted concept, on a broad scale. The discussion slides along the length of the multilateral fault line and into the related fields of contemporary art and art history/theory. In doing so, it illuminates the potential for philosophical archaeology, as an artistic modus operandi in the broader context of contemporary art, to expand our conception of history and historiographic research, and for this sense of history to expand our conception of art, in turn. At stake in this consideration is the possibility of a new, materially based philosophy of history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter One The History of Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben
- Chapter Two Toward Agambenâs Philosophy of History
- Chapter Three Ar[t]chaeology
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover