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Body of Language
esperruquancluzelubelouzerirelu
Inbunden, 2025
254 kr
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An erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers. This book explores how early modern authors broke linguistic boundaries, creating new words and languages that challenged traditional grammar and lexicon, providing historical …
Unrealizable
Towards a Politics of Ontology
Inbunden, 2025
254 kr
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A patient, genealogical investigation of the dichotomies that are foundational to the Western philosophical tradition.We are so used to distinguishing between the possible and the real, between essence and existence that we do not realize that these distinctions, which seem so obvious to us, are …
Puzzles
A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’
Av Carlo Ginzburg, Adriano Prosperi
Inbunden, 2026
335 kr
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A seminar, a sixteenth-century heretical text, and the art of slow reading—this is historical research as you’ve never seen it before.Patience Games: A Seminar on the 'Benefit of Christ' invites readers into the unpredictable world of scholarly discovery, where interpretation is not a straight path …
Human Voice
Inbunden, 2026
186 kr
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An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped history, politics, and thought.What does it mean to have a voice—and how does it shape what it means to be human? In The Human Voice, Giorgio Agamben embarks on a profound …
Spirit and the Letter
On the Interpretation of Scripture
Inbunden, 2026
188 kr
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Distinguished philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers an archaeological inquiry into the problem of scriptural interpretation. The problem of interpreting Scripture—above all, sacred scripture, but ultimately any form of writing—coincides with the very history of Western culture. It is no surprise, …
Spartakus
The Symbology of Revolt
Av Furio Jesi
Häftad, 2024
177 kr
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A crucial text at the intersection of history and philosophy in twentieth-century Italy.On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed and more than 500,000 …
Twilight of Politics
Av Mario Tronti
Häftad, 2025
273 kr
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A classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left. Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of Workers and Capital, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian operaismo or workerism, a current of political …
World Machine
Inbunden, 2024
254 kr
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A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other beings who are machines themselves. Our true …
Fear Reverence Terror
Inbunden, 2017
335 kr
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We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to buy!, scaring us, dazzling us.Fear, …
Time of Thinking
The Le Thor Seminars with Heidegger (1966 and 1968)
Inbunden, 2027
245 kr
Kommande
A glimpse into philosopher Giorgio Agamben's formative encounter with Martin Heidegger, told through his notes from the Le Thor seminars. What does it mean for thought to have a time of its own? In The Time of Thinking, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents the notes he took during two …
Test of Powers
Writings on Criticism and Literary Institutions
Inbunden, 2016
301 kr
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Originally published in Italian in 1965, A Test of Powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian intellectual life. By the time of the 1968 student revolts, it was clear that Franco Fortini had anticipated many of the themes and concerns of the New Left, which is no surprise, …
Writer and the People
Inbunden, 2021
361 kr
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Originally published in 1965, The Writer and the People was one of the key books in the revitalization and invigoration of the young Left in late-1960s Italy. Aiming to demystify the myth of populism, Alberto Asor Rosa takes on Marxism and its legacy, the relationship between Fascism and the Left, …
Class
Av Andrea Cavalletti, Alberto Toscano
Inbunden, 2019
213 kr
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In 1936, Walter Benjamin defined the revolutionary class as being in opposition to a dense and dangerous crowd, prone to fear of the foreign, and under the spell of anti-Semitic madness. Today, in formations great or small, that sad figure returns the hatred of minorities is rekindled and the …
Life in Peacetime
Inbunden, 2019
269 kr
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When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using synthetics, he reflects on …
Javelin Thrower
Inbunden, 2018
256 kr
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As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Damin is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined with a compulsion to watch them, which becomes an …
Pulcinella
Or Entertainment for Children
Inbunden, 2018
369 kr
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The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of the distant past that inflect the culture around us today. With Pulcinella, Agamben is back with yet another surprising--and surprisingly …
Memories from the Twentieth Century
Av Luigi Pintor
Häftad, 2018
188 kr
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In these three short books—Servabo: A Fin De Siècle Memoir, Miss Kirchgessner, and The Medlar Tree, collected in one volume in English for the first time—Luigi Pintor retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once intransigent and ironic, these autobiographical texts are …
Church and the Kingdom
Häftad, 2018
132 kr
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Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in …
Solitary
Inbunden, 2018
255 kr
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We learn more every year about the damaging effects of solitary confinement. This unquestionably cruel and unusual punishment leaves prisoners with no human contact, sometimes for years at a time, and it nearly always leads to lasting trauma. In Solitary, Maurizio Torchio takes on the daunting task …
Time and Festivity
Av Furio Jesi, Andrea Cavalletti
Inbunden, 2019
255 kr
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One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and diversity, its depth and scope, and, above all, …
Still Arrow
Three Attempts to Annul Time
Inbunden, 2022
191 kr
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Elvio Fachinelli (1928–1989) was a leading Italian psychoanalyst whose clinical, theoretical, and activist work resonated well beyond his discipline. In The Still Arrow, Fachinelli launches an interdisciplinary investigation ranging from anthropology to politics, and from the history of religions …
Primo Levi
An Identikit
Inbunden, 2022
415 kr
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Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive biography of Primo Levi.Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, …
This Body That Inhabits Me
Av Rossana Rossanda, Lea Melandri
Inbunden, 2022
177 kr
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A collection of essays on the mysteries of the body from one of Italy’s leading postwar communist intellectuals.Politician, translator, and journalist Rossana Rossanda was the most important female left-wing intellectual in post-war Italy. Central to the Italian Communist Party’s cultural wing …
Idea of World
Public Intellect and Use of Life
Av Paolo Virno
Häftad, 2022
189 kr
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A philosophical exploration of what capitalistic societies truly mean for the individual. A short vade mecum for unrepentant materialism, The Idea of World collects three essays by Italian philosopher Paulo Virno that are intricately wrapped around one another. The first essay, "Mundanity," tries …
Rain's Falling Up
Inbunden, 2022
268 kr
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A beautifully crafted novel set in the late 1960s and 1970s Italy, a tempestuous period that shaped the lives of generations to come in many countries.What was it really like to be a teenager growing up in Italy in the 1970s, during a time it has become all too easy to file away under "years of …
Primo Levi – An Identikit
Av Marco Belpoliti, Clarissa Botsford
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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Drawing on twenty years of research, this is the definitive biography of Primo Levi.Over the last seventy years, Primo Levi (1919–87) has been recognized as the foremost literary witness of the extermination of the European Jews. In Primo Levi: An Identikit, a product of twenty years of research, …
As Cruel as Anyone Else
Italians, Colonies and Empire
Inbunden, 2024
1015 kr
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Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the end of the nineteenth century and over the first half of the twentieth, Italy invaded and occupied the Horn of Africa, Libya, and several other territories. Yet recognition of …
Essay on Negation
For a Linguistic Anthropology
Av Paolo Virno
Häftad, 2024
204 kr
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A vital addition to Seagull’s growing Italian List that focuses on leftist Italian thought, bringing famous as well as little-known yet crucial voices into the English language.As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at …
Kingdom and the Garden
Häftad, 2024
177 kr
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In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity’s true nature.What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in The …
Studiolo
Häftad, 2024
188 kr
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A brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher.In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its author, Giorgio Agamben, as he turns …
