Agamben, Giorgio (1942– ) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
..., Giorgio ( 1942– ). Philosopher who has published important studies on aesthetics. He graduated at Rome University with a thesis on Simone Weil and currently teaches at Verona. Deeply influenced by Walter Benjamin , his thought combines political commitment, theoretical synthesis, and critical attention to specific cultural phenomena, together with a pessimistic interpretation of modernity. He attempts to go beyond idealism and to redraw the relationship between universality and singularity, assigning a central role to the renovatory potential of...
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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...Benjamin’s work): The Open ( 2004 ), The Kingdom and the Glory ( 2011 ), and The Highest Poverty ( 2013 ). Further Reading: K. Attell Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction (2014). L. De la Durantaye Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009). C. Mills The Philosophy of Agamben (2008). http://www.iep.utm.edu/agamben/ A comprehensive overview of Giorgio Agamben’s work, with references and further...
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Aut-Aut Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
...( 1951– ). Philosophical and cultural review founded by Enzo Paci in Milan , currently published every two months and edited by Pier Aldo Rovatti . Noted for the high quality of its writing, it has published contributions from Giorgio Agamben , Gianni Vattimo , and others, and is a significant reference point for the most recent developments in contemporary thought. [ Michael Caesar...
Introduction to Italian Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation
...Gramsci and Galvano della Volpe responded to the burgeoning interest in cultural and political theory. The debates on postmodernism and ethics at the close of the 20th c. have been informed by resourceful English versions of such contemporary thinkers as Gianni Vattimo and Giorgio Agamben. Many major Italian dramatists have appeared in translation, and the versions have often been staged. Torquato Tasso's [II.m.7] pastoral drama Aminta ( 1573 ) was translated repeatedly during the 17th and 18th c., although today it is of interest only to specialists....
Dispositif Reference library
Ricky Crano
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
... Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 12. 90. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 13. 91. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 12. 92. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 11, 20. 93. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 14. 94. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 14. 95. Cf. Tom Frost, “The Dispositif between Foucault and Agamben,” Law, Culture and the Humanities (2015): 1–21. 96. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 15. 97. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 22. 98. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 22. 99. Agamben, “What Is an Apparatus?,” 23. 100. Agamben,...
Singularity Reference library
Derek Attridge
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...2008), 50. 14. Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field , trans. Susan Emanuel (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), xix. 15. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community , trans. Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 1. 16. Agamben, The Coming Community , 9. 17. Agamben, The Coming Community , 67. 18. Agamben, The Coming Community , 86. 19. Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural , trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O’Byrne (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000 ), 30....
Animal Reference library
Christopher Peterson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...racism, sexism, heterosexism, and classism. On this view, humanism’s inherent anthropocentrism betrays a speciesist devaluing of the countless nonhuman beings with whom we share the same world. Among the myriad critiques of anthropocentrism, Giorgio Agamben’s The Open counts among the most influential. Here Agamben introduced his concept of the “anthropological machine,” which he divides into its premodern and post-Darwinian versions. 11 The former hinges on “humanizing” the animal by constructing the slave, the barbarian, and the foreigner as occupying a...
Sound Poetry Reference library
H. Feinsod
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...McClure ’s “beast language” offer an affiliation to sound poetry that reconnects the voice to biological priorities, while McCaffery has rethought the voice as a “paleotechnic” instrument in a wider media ecology. A third critical view, exemplified by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben , holds that written, asemantic speech codes are the textual figuration of embodied voice, opening poetry to an “unheard dimension sustained in the pure breath of the voice, in mere vox as insignificant will to signify.” A countertendency could be located in a group of...
Parody and Pastiche Reference library
Leonard Diepeveen
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...on the specificity of the term’s application, from the most general (Agamben) to the most specific (Genette, Hoesterey). These positions are accompanied by a parallel strategy on the place of distinctions, with critics such as Genette and Hoesterey arguing for the value of separating citational works into several discrete categories, while others—such as Gross and Dentith—evince a distrust of the stability and usefulness of such distinctions. Further Reading Agamben, Giorgio . Profanations . Translated by Jeff Fort . New York: Zone, 2007. Bakhtin...
Tragedy Reference library
Alberto Toscano
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
... Introduction aux leçons , 43. 90. Nietzsche, 47. Contrast with Giorgio Agamben’s recent suggestion of tragedy’s origination in the satyr play. Reminding us of the fact that the latter capped the performance of tragic trilogies at the Dionysian festivals, Agamben states that “satyrs are more ancient than the heroes of tragedy, and in replacing—or pairing—human protagonists with satyrs, satyric drama [ saturikon drama ] reconnects itself with the non-human origin of all theatre.” Giorgio Agamben, Pulcinella, or, Entertainment for Kids in Four Scenes , trans....
Voice Reference library
David Nowell Smith
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...52 Voice stands for the unitary, the self-present, the stable, the wholly intelligible—namely, everything to be “deconstructed” by the critic who has cast off metaphysics. However, Derrida’s thought also opened up a revaluation of the meaning of “voice,” in thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, who took the Derridean account of voice to indicate it as a “negative ontological foundation,” and Garrett Stewart, whose Reading Voices examines the slippages of homophony according to a logic of “the trace” not unlike Derrida’s account of writing. 53 If Derrida’s thought...
Poetic Cognition Reference library
Marshall Brown
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...viii. 50. Giorgio Agamben, The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics , trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), 109. The end of the poem, Agamben writes, “is something like a decisive crisis for the poem, a genuine crise de vers , in which the poem’s very identity is at stake”; Agamben, The End of the Poem , 113. “Decisive,” “genuine,” “very”: the American and British critics are generally less melodramatic, but temptations to essentializing of sound and of sense remain. This title essay in Agamben’s collection dates...
Queer Reference library
Octavio R. González and Todd G. Nordgren
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...from) other, older dimensions of being. Similarly, the idea of biopower, which emerges in Foucault’s History of Sexuality , has generated an influential conceptual framework for understanding modernity and power relations far beyond the sexual realm. See, for instance, Giorgio Agamben’s deployment of biopower in his analysis of “bare life” and Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics . 67 In this latter development, the dimension of the biopolitical encompasses as broad a sociopolitical arena as envisioned by early queer theorists, suggesting the ongoing dialectic...
