![]() ![]() He has been a friend and collaborator to such eminent intellectuals as Pier Paolo Pasolini (in whose The Gospel According to St. During this fellowship, Agamben began to develop his second book, Stanzas (1977).Īgamben was close to the poets Giorgio Caproni and José Bergamín, and to the Italian novelist Elsa Morante, to whom he devoted the essays "The Celebration of the Hidden Treasure" (in The End of the Poem) and "Parody" (in Profanations). In 1974–1975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, due to the courtesy of Frances Yates, whom he met through Italo Calvino. During this period, Agamben began to elaborate his primary concerns, although their political bearings were not yet made explicit. In the 1970s, he worked primarily on linguistics, philology, poetics, and topics in medieval culture. Agamben participated in Martin Heidegger's Le Thor seminars (on Heraclitus and Hegel) in 19. The concept of biopolitics (carried forth from the work of Michel Foucault) informs many of his writings.Īgamben was educated at the University of Rome, where in 1965 he wrote an unpublished laurea thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil. Giorgio Agamben ( / ə ˈ ɡ æ m b ə n/ ə- GAM-bən, Italian: born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer. ![]()
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