Karman

A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture

Giorgio Agamben (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2018 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0582-4 (ISBN)

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What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground.

Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is The Omnibus "Homo Sacer" (2017).

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Übersetzer	Adam Kotsko
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-5036-0582-5 / 1503605825
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0582-4 / 9781503605824
Zustand	Neuware