Potentialities

Potentialities
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804732787

This volume constitutes the largest collection of writings by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hitherto published in any language. The essays consider several figures in the history of philosophy; the relation of linguistic and metaphysical categories; messianism in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian theology; and the state and future of contemporary politics.