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Agamben
Agamben on language
Agamben on the state of Western culture
Ancient Rome
and this remnant is poetry
Aristotle
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Christianity
Chronos and Kairos
Dante
dead language
doctrine of the Antichrist
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even when all the operations of language have been deactivated
forthcoming
Hannah Arendt
history as the province of monks and theologians
Kant
language and history
language and history in Western culture
metalanguage
new book by Giorgio Agamben
philosophy and chronology
philosophy of history
Plato
remnants of language
something always remains
the idea of a 'language that remains' or a 'remnant of language' is central to philosophical tradition
the language of poetry is the incommunicable that remains after all communication has been suspended and deactivated
the relationship between three fundamental concepts of time
theology and history
Product details
- ISBN 9781509570447
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Time, language, and history: in this book Giorgio Agamben examines how, in Western culture, these three fundamental concepts have become tangled up in a knot that we can no longer unravel.
From this perspective, the book considers the critical importance of chronology, which is not a neutral convention but the breach through which theology penetrates into history; the nexus between history and eschatology in the doctrine of the Antichrist and the dizzying recapitulation of the dying as they see their entire lives parade before their eyes; the mundus, which in Roman cities was the name of the threshold that connected the past and the present, the world of the living and the one of the dead; and the difference between Chronos, time that devours its children, and kairos, the moment when an opportunity is seized. And, in Hannah Arendt’s words, when everything seems to have lost its meaning, if what remains and what we bring with us is language, what is the language that remains?
From this perspective, the book considers the critical importance of chronology, which is not a neutral convention but the breach through which theology penetrates into history; the nexus between history and eschatology in the doctrine of the Antichrist and the dizzying recapitulation of the dying as they see their entire lives parade before their eyes; the mundus, which in Roman cities was the name of the threshold that connected the past and the present, the world of the living and the one of the dead; and the difference between Chronos, time that devours its children, and kairos, the moment when an opportunity is seized. And, in Hannah Arendt’s words, when everything seems to have lost its meaning, if what remains and what we bring with us is language, what is the language that remains?
Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice.
