The Adventure

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Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio) Lorenzo Chiesa (Director, Genoa School of Humanities)

The Adventure

Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio), Lorenzo Chiesa (Director, Genoa School of Humanities)

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English

MIT Press
09 March 2018

Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; Popular philosophy

Series: 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 Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure-not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all- Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.

By: Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio)
Translated by: Lorenzo Chiesa (Director Genoa School of Humanities)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 102mm, Spine: 8mm
ISBN: 9780262037594
ISBN 10: 0262037599
Series: The Adventure
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 09 March 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer- Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz- The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things- On Method (the last three published by Zone Books), and other books. Lorenzo Chiesa is Director of the Genoa School of Humanities and the author of Subjectivity and Otherness- A Philosophical Reading of Lacan and The Not-Two- Logic and God in Lacan, both published by the MIT Press.