{"product_id":"infancy-and-history-on-the-destruction-of-experience-9781844675715","title":"Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience","description":"How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a \"dumb\" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the \"poverty of experience\" was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamin's complete works, the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgamben's profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Benveniste. In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throws new light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: the anthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguistic opposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject and the appearance of the unconscious. Agamben goes on to consider time and history; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a careful reading of the famous Adorno-Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire's Paris); and the difference between rituals and games. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautifully written, erudite and provocative, these essays will be of great interest to students of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781844675715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.14w x 0.54d","brand":"Giorgio Agamben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44700360573109,"sku":"9781844675715","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_07b7aa0d-34e5-4f9b-9814-95888f0df1a9.jpg?v=1728396834","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/infancy-and-history-on-the-destruction-of-experience-9781844675715","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}