Karman

A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2701121
AutoresAdam Kotsko, Giorgio Agamben (autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Páginas120
Fecha de publicación2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaKarman (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503605831
OpenAlexW4232838817
Open LibraryOL60875565M
ISBN9781503605831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

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

Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification · 174/.3 · Act (philosophy) · Free will and determinism · K247.6 .a3313 2018 · LAW · Law (Philosophical concept) · Law and ethics · Philosophy · Responsibility