The Unspeakable Girl - The Myth and Mystery of Kore

Informationen zum Autor Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for his Homo Sacer series. He recently retired from the Università Iuav di Venezia. Monica Ferrando is a contemporary artist who studied philosophy and art in Turin and Berlin. Leland de la Durantaye is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov and Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction . Klappentext Translation of: La ragazza indicibile: mito e mistero di Kore. Zusammenfassung Kore! also called Persephone and referred to poetically by the Greeks as "the unspeakable girl!" was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld. This title presents three richly detailed treatments of the myth of Kore.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgio Agamben, Giorgio/ Ferrando Agamben, Monica Ferrando
• Assisted by: Leland De La Durantaye (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780857420831
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-083-1
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Italian List; Italian List
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day