Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience by Giorgio Agamben

Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience

Giorgio Agamben with Liz Heron (Translator)

167 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe ...

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