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Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture

By Giorgio Agamben; Adam Kotsko

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781503605831
DOI
10.1515/9781503605831
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1098663 bytes)
Pages
120\116
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 12:40:17

Description

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, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground.

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