Deja Vu and the End of History

Informationen zum Autor Paolo Virno teaches Philosophy at the University of Rome. His recent books include A Grammar of the Multitude and Multitude: Between Innovation and Negation . David Broder is a Rome-based writer and translator. He is a contributing editor for Jacobin magazine and regularly writes on Italian politics for publications including Internazionale . This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of "deja vu" and the idea of the "End of History" relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Zusammenfassung This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Virno, Virno Paolo
• Assisted by: David Broder (Translation), Broder David (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2015
• EAN: 9781781686119
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-611-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Futures; Verso Futures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy