Nymphs (The Italian List) - Hardcover

Agamben, Giorgio

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ISBN 10: 0857420941 ISBN 13: 9780857420947

Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2013

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"In Giorgio Agamben's work, one meets a vision that looks deeply into the well of human experience and perceives there a turbulent and powerful interplay of political and social forces, all serving to shape and constitute-not only the social order and individual subjectivity-but also life at its most basic level." -Radical Philosophy Review"

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In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure - shall I call her a servant girl, or rather a classical nymph? What is the meaning of it all - Who is the nymph? Where does she come from?" Warburg's response: "In essence she is an elemental spirit, a pagan goddess in exile," serves as the touchstone for this wide-ranging and theoretical exploration of female representation in iconography. In "Nymphs", the newest translation of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's work, the author notes that academic research has lingered on the "pagan goddess," while the concept of "elemental spirit," ignored by scholars, is vital to the history of iconography. Tracing the genealogy of this idea, Agamben goes on to examine subjects as diverse as the aesthetic theories of choreographer Domineco da Piacenza, Friedrich Theodor Vischer's essay on the "symbol," Walter Benjamin's concept of the dialectic image, and the bizarre discoveries of photographer Nathan Lerner in 1972. From these investigations emerges a startlingly original exploration of the ideas of time and the image. Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and "Nymphs" will engage not only the author's devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism, but his growing audience among art theorists and historians as well.

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• Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857420941
• ISBN 13: 9780857420947
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72