Agamben and the Signature of Astrology - Spheres of Potentiality

This book examines how astrology appears in the works of Giorgio Agamben as a means to visualize the significance of the central elements in his thinking on issues such as potentiality, biopolitics, and the signature. The astrological signature becomes an alternative mode to theology, politics, and philosophy as a way of understanding history.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Constellations of (Un)written Life
Scholium: Astrology and the Philosophy of History
Chapter 2: Interstellar Archaeology
Chapter 3: A Theory of Unwritten Texts
Chapter 4: Spheres of Potentiality
Chapter 5: Warburg's Gesture
Coda
References
About the Author

About the author

Paul Colilli is professor of Italian studies at Laurentian University in Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Colilli, Colilli Paul
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498505970
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0597-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Astrology, the cosmos; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Astrology / General, Astrology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -