Karman
A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture
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Word Count
30,000 words, Guess
Page Count
120 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28844944M
- ISBN-139781503605824
- OCLC Control Number1015241941
- Library of Congress Control Number2017044378
Classifications
- LCCK247.6.A3313 2018
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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