{"product_id":"nudities-9780804769501","title":"Nudities","description":"\u003cp\u003eEncompassing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf nudity is unconcealment, or the absence of all veils, then \u003ci\u003eNudities\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of apertures onto truth. A guiding thread of this collection--weaving 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 Venice--is inoperativity, or the cessation of work. The term should not be understood as laziness or inertia, but rather as the paradigm of human action in the politics to come. Itself the result of inoperativity, \u003ci\u003eNudities\u003c\/i\u003e shuttles between philosophy and poetry, philological erudition and unexpected digression, metaphysical treatise and critique of modern life. And whether the subject at hand is personal identity or the biometric apparatus, the slanderer or the land surveyor, Kafka or Kleist, every page bears the singular imprint of one of the most astute philosophers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giorgio Agamben\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.56w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804769501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and radical political theorist, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. Stanford University Press has published seven of his previous books: \u003ci\u003eHomo Sacer\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003ePotentialities\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Man Without Content\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Poem\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Open\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eThe Time that Remains\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and, most recently, \u003ci\u003e\"What is an Apparatus?\" and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e(2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42935361175667,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":26.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f162b308-e378-4b64-8fad-8dde493b36fe.jpg?v=1742908604","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/nudities-9780804769501","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}