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What is Philosophy?
In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most …
An Essay on Negation
A vital addition to Seagull’s growing Italian List that focuses on leftist Italian thought, bringing famous as well as little-known yet crucial voices into the English language. As …
The Fire and the Tale
What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that …
The Virtual Point of Freedom
The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a …
Italian Difference
Kingdom and the Glory
Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "e;economy,"e; that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that …
The Adventure
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and …
Italian Thought Today
This collection provides English readers with a critical update on current debates on biopolitics in and around Italian thought. More than a decade after the publication of seminal …
Subjectivity and Otherness
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "e;pro-Lacanians"e; for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work-and …
The Still Arrow
Elvio Fachinelli (1928–1989) was a leading Italian psychoanalyst whose clinical, theoretical, and activist work resonated well beyond his discipline. In The Still Arrow, Fachinelli …
Convention and Materialism
The first English translation of the book that established Paolo Virno as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation.With the 1986 publication of this book in …