Stanzas is a fascinating blend of philology, medieval physics and psychology, the psychoanalysis of toys, and contemporary linguistics and philosophy. In this unique work, Giorgio Agamben attempts to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of Western culture. He rereads Freud and Saussure to discover the impossibility of metalanguage and of synthesis that could be reflected in the transparency of signs. 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 because 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.
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吉奥乔·阿甘本博士(1942- )是欧洲研究生院(EGS)巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授,意大利维罗拉大学美学教授,并于巴黎国际哲学学院教授哲学。在攻读博士后阶段,阿甘本参与了弗莱堡由马丁·海德格尔主持的研讨会,并主持了瓦尔特·本雅明意大利译本的翻译工作。阿甘本独特的对文学理论,欧陆哲学,政治思想,宗教研究以及文学和艺术的融会贯通,使他成为我们时代最具挑战性的思想家之一。他也是巴黎一些大学的客座教授,同时于美国数所大学,如UC伯克利,洛杉矶,埃尔文,圣克鲁斯和西北大学等学校任教。
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