The End of the Poem

Studies in Poetics

By:

Giorgio Agamben

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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This book, by one of Italy s most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents literature as a set of formal or linguistic genres that discuss or develop theological issues at a certain distance from the discourse of theology. This distance begins to appear in Virgil and Ovid, but it becomes decisive in Dante and in his decision to write in the vernacular. His vernacular Italian reaches back through classical allusion to the Latin that was in his day the language of theology, but it does so with a difference. It is no accident that in the Commedia Virgil is Dante s guide.

Author Biography:

Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Verona. Among his books is Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, 1998).

Release date NZ

June 1st, 1999

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen

Pages

164

Series

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Dimensions

3233x5193x12

ISBN-13

9780804730228

Product ID

3675264

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