{"product_id":"self-portrait-in-the-studio-9781803094656","title":"Self-Portrait in the Studio","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book's title, \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait in the Studio\u003c\/i\u003e--a familiar iconographic subject in the history of painting--is intended to be taken literally: the book is a self-portrait, but one that comes into view for the reader only by way of patient scrutiny of the images, photographs, objects, and paintings present in the studios where the writer has worked and still works. That is to say, Giorgio Agamben's wager is to speak of himself solely and uniquely by speaking of others: the poets, philosophers, painters, musicians, friends, passions--in short, the meetings and encounters that have shaped his life, thought, and writing, from Martin Heidegger to Elsa Morante, from Herman Melville to Walter Benjamin, from Giorgio Caproni to Giovanni Urbani. For this reason, images are an integral part of the book, images that--like those in a rebus that together form another, larger image--ultimately combine with the written text in one of the most unusual self-portraits that any writer has left of himself: not an autobiography, but a faithful and timeless auto-heterography. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803094656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220","brand":"Giorgio Agamben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44561487233205,"sku":"9781803094656","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3067671c-9022-4a19-b147-1595ca750c7c.jpg?v=1723525741","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/self-portrait-in-the-studio-9781803094656","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}