Against power : for an overhaul of critical theory /
In this book, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. This book explores th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rome ; John Cabot University Press ; Newark :
Distributed by University of Delaware Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | In this book, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. This book explores the issue of power from a philosophical literary perspective. It tackles the linguistic and literary relations between the notions of "power" and "potential." |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 87 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611496192 (cloth : alk. paper) 1611496195 (cloth : alk. paper) |