Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Kevin Attell will be speaking on the thought of Giorgio Agamben.
This talk will focus on Agamben’s philosophy of language as presented in such texts as 'Infancy and History' (1978) and 'Language and Death' (1982) and will consider the way it provides the groundwork for his more explicitly political and biopolitical theory of recent years. The talk will also address the ways Agamben’s thinking on language differs from that of Derrida.
KEVIN ATTELL teaches in the English Department at Cornell University. He is the translator of Giorgio Agamben’s 'The Open: Man and Animal', 'State of Exception', and 'The Signature of All Things: On Method'. He is currently completing a book on Agamben and deconstruction.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 May 2011 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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