Stanzas : Word and Phantasm in Western Culture Paperback / softback
by Georgio Agamben
Part of the Theory and History of Literature series
Paperback / softback
Description
"Stanzas" (which means "rooms" in Italian) is a blend of philology, the psychoanalysis of toys, medieval physics and psychology, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy.
In this work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture.
He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage - there is no "superior language" that can read the obscure scenes of the unconscious, and the "symbol" is always the return of the repressed in an improper signifier.
This impossibility leads Agamben to the problem of representation.
He argues that since language is the locus of the production and storage of phantasms, all real objects are fractured by phantasmic itineraries that in turn divide poetry and philosophy, joy and knowledge.
This division is at the origin of Western culture and renders impossible the possession of any object of knowledge.
Giorgio Agamben is the author of "Language and Death" (University of Minnesota Press 1991).
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date:17/11/1992
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- ISBN:9780816620388
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date:17/11/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780816620388
