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This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act, reinterpreting these with respect to time. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality.

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Déjà Vu and the End of History

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    A Paperback / softback by Paolo Virno, David Broder

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      Publisher Verso Books
      Published 3 February 2015
      ISBN-13 9781781686126
      978-1781686126
      ISBN-10 1781686122
      Also in:
      History: theory and methods Cognition and cognitive psychology Social and political philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act, reinterpreting these with respect to time. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality.

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      Paulo Virno is one of the most radical and lucid thinkers of the postoperaist political tradition * Meditations Journal *

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