Profanations
Title | Profanations PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Agamben |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 71 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1942130562 |
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben’s singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering — the talking cricket in Pinocchio; “helpers” in Kafka’s novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud. “In Praise of Profanity,” the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.
Derrida: Profanations
Title | Derrida: Profanations PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Connor |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2010-05-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441124330 |
Derrida: Profanations presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. If philosophy articulates what it means to be human, then deconstruction, which Patrick O'Connor argues consigns all existence to a mortal, profane and worldly life remains radically philosophical. The assertion demands an analysis of Derrida's radicalisation of the key philosophers who influenced him, as well as a rebuttal of theological accounts of deconstruction. This book closely examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger. This book presents a theorisation of deconstruction as profane, atheistic and egalitarian. It reveals how deconstruction holds the resources to think ontology as a multiplicity of worlds through demonstrates the ways in which Derrida expresses a 'phenomenology' which disjoints humans' orientation to the world. Deconstruction is characterized as radically hubristic. For deconstruction, nothing is sacred. If nothing sustains itself as separate, exclusive or sacrosanct, then nothing can sustain the implementation of its own hierarchy.
Knowledge and Profanation
Title | Knowledge and Profanation PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Mulsow |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 375 |
Release | 2019-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004398937 |
Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors.
A Discourse on the Institution, Observance and Profanation, of the Sabbath. Delivered at Walpole, N.H., on the National and State Fast, September 9, 1813
Title | A Discourse on the Institution, Observance and Profanation, of the Sabbath. Delivered at Walpole, N.H., on the National and State Fast, September 9, 1813 PDF eBook |
Author | Pliny DICKINSON |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 1813 |
Genre | Fast-day sermons |
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An Address to the Inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, on the Profanation of the Lord's Day
Title | An Address to the Inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, on the Profanation of the Lord's Day PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 16 |
Release | 1800 |
Genre | Amusements |
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On Sabbath Profanation; Prevailing forms of the desecration of the Lord's Day, and the duty of Christians in regard to them: being a discourse [on Nehem. xiii. 15-22], etc
Title | On Sabbath Profanation; Prevailing forms of the desecration of the Lord's Day, and the duty of Christians in regard to them: being a discourse [on Nehem. xiii. 15-22], etc PDF eBook |
Author | John Gordon LORIMER (D.D.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 1830 |
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An association of prayers against blasphemy, swearing and the profanation of Sundays and festivals, tr. from the Fr. by E.G.K. Browne
Title | An association of prayers against blasphemy, swearing and the profanation of Sundays and festivals, tr. from the Fr. by E.G.K. Browne PDF eBook |
Author | Association réparatrice des blasphèmes et de la violation du dimanche |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 76 |
Release | 1847 |
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