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Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben''s latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinities between the chapters slowly comes into focus. Take another step back, and it becomes another indispensable piece of the finely nuanced philosophy that Agamben has been patiently constructing over four decades of sustained research.

If nudity is unconcealment, or the absence of all veils, then Nudities is a series of apertures onto truth. A guiding thread of this collectionweaving together the prophet''s work of redemption, the glorious bodies of the resurrected, the celebration of the Sabbath, and the specters that stroll the streets of Veniceis inoperativity, or the cessation of work. The term should not be understood as laziness or inertia, but rather as the paradigm of hu

Nudities

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    A Paperback / softback by Giorgio Agamben, David Kishik, Stefan Pedatella

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 6 October 2010
      ISBN-13 9780804769501
      978-0804769501
      ISBN-10 0804769508
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      Book Synopsis

      Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben''s latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinities between the chapters slowly comes into focus. Take another step back, and it becomes another indispensable piece of the finely nuanced philosophy that Agamben has been patiently constructing over four decades of sustained research.

      If nudity is unconcealment, or the absence of all veils, then Nudities is a series of apertures onto truth. A guiding thread of this collectionweaving together the prophet''s work of redemption, the glorious bodies of the resurrected, the celebration of the Sabbath, and the specters that stroll the streets of Veniceis inoperativity, or the cessation of work. The term should not be understood as laziness or inertia, but rather as the paradigm of hu

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