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Informationen zum Autor William Watkin is professor of contemporary literature and philosophy at Brunel University, UK. He is the author of In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde (2001), On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature (2004), T he Literary Agamben (2010) Agamben and Indifference (2014) and Badiou and Indifferent Being (Bloomsbury, 2017). Klappentext This is the first complete account of all Giorgio Agamben's philosophical work on literature. While Giorgio Agamben is most widely known for his political philosophy, at least a third of his output is dedicated to unique, technical and revelatory readings of literature. Indeed, it is impossible to fully understand Agamben's overall movement towards a Messianic philosophy to come without knowledge of the role of poetry in his ontology. The Literary Agamben considers the totality of Agamben's detailed and varied work on literature and poiesis. Organised around three areas, language, poiesis and modernity, the book explains Agamben's theory of literary singularity in all its complexity. William Watkin details Agamben's particular 'ontological' take on linguistics, works through Agamben's definition of poetry as the tension between semantic and semiotic, and engages with Agamben's aggressive yet insightful critique of modern art as productively nihilistic. The book presents Agamben's overall conception of poiesis and its relevancy to future readings in literature, as well as an understanding of how poiesis forms the crucial third part of Agamben's overall philosophical system alongside the more widely disseminated terms 'exception' and 'potentiality'. The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory series examines the encounter between contemporary Continental philosophy and aesthetic and cultural theory. Each book in the series explores an exciting new direction in philosophical aesthetics or cultural theory, identifying the most important and pressing issues in Continental philosophy today. Vorwort The first complete and comprehensive account of all Giorgio Agamben's philosophical work on literature. Zusammenfassung While Giorgio Agamben is most widely known for his political philosophy, at least a third of his output is dedicated to unique, technical and revelatory readings of literature. This title offers an account of all Giorgio Agamben's philosophical work on literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Exoteric Dossier: The Literary Agamben Projection: There is Language Part I: On the Way to Logopoiesis1. Logos: Thinking, Thought 2. Poeisis: Thinking Through Making 3. Modernity: Productive Anti-Poeisis Part II: Adventures in Logopoeisis4. Logopoeisis: Thinking Tautology 5. Enjambment: The Turn of Verse 6. Caesura: The Space of Thought Recursion: The Turning of Thinking Bibliography Index...
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William Watkin is professor of contemporary literature and philosophy at Brunel University, UK. He is the author of In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde (2001), On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature (2004), The Literary Agamben (2010) Agamben and Indifference (2014) and Badiou and Indifferent Being (Bloomsbury, 2017).
