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Idea of Prose

By Giorgio Agamben

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0791423808, 9780791423806
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13564590 bytes)
Series
Suny Series, Intersections Philosophy & Critical Theory
Pages
152\76
Time added
2018-05-21 12:54:39
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Description

This book consists of prose pieces that find a new form of expression for philosophy, an expression showing the inseparability of idea and prose--the very form of truth. In this book, thought seeks a new form, a new "prose." To this end, it brings into play the strategies of the apology, the aphorism, the short story, the fable, the riddle, and all those "simple forms" that are today no longer used, but whose task it has always been to bring about in the reader an experience, an awakening--rather than attempting to put forth a theory. It is only in this sense--insofar as thought contends with the exposition of an Idea--that the problem of "thought" becomes, in these "treatises," a poetic problem. These are little ideas or forms that, in their brevity, compress that which cannot in any way be forgotten, since according to the platonic admonition, it would be put in "the shortest possible measure."

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