Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture
Giorgio Agamben, translated by Adam Kotsko
What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum,Karmandeepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground.
Originally published in Italian in 2017 under the title Karman: Breve trattato sull’azione, la colpa e il gesto © 2017, Bollati Boringhieri editore.
년:
2018
출판사:
Stanford University Press
언어:
english
페이지:
120
ISBN 10:
1503605833
ISBN 13:
9781503605831
시리즈:
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
파일:
PDF, 781 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2018