The Signature of All Things

On Method

Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio), Luca D'Isanto, Kevin Attell

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English

Zone Books
04 January 2010

Archaeology; Archaeological methodology & techniques; Philosophy

Series: The Signature of All Things

"The search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine pure and unmarked signs.

The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking in order to expose, examine, and elaborate what is obscure, unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an author's thought. To be archaeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a ""world supported by a thick weave of resemblances and sympathies, analogies and correspondences."" Collecting a wide range of authors and topics in a slim but richly argued volume, Agamben enacts the search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine the pure and unmarked signs that signify univocally, neutrally, and eternally. Three conceptual figures organize Agamben's argument and the advent of his new method: the paradigm, the signature, and archaeology. Each chapter is devoted to an investigation of one of these concepts and Agamben carefully constructs its genealogy transhistorically and from an interdisciplinary perspective. And at each moment of the text, Agamben pays tribute to Michel Foucault, whose methods he rethinks and effectively uses to reformulate the logic of the concepts he isolates. The Signature of All Things reveals once again why Agamben is one of the most innovative thinkers writing today."

By: Giorgio Agamben (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio)
Translated by: Luca D'Isanto, Kevin Attell
Imprint: Zone Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781890951986
ISBN 10: 1890951986
Series: The Signature of All Things
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 04 January 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
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.

Reviews for The Signature of All Things: On Method

...The Signature of All Things is a work of the highest intellectual caliber.-Conor O'Dea, Philosophy in Review ...The Signature of All Things is a work of the highest intellectual caliber.-Conor O'Dea, Philosophy in Review * Reviews *