Kevin Attell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Attell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Attell |
| SIGNATURE | ATTELL K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Giorgio Agamben
Agamben’s thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how throughout his career Agamben has consistently and closely engaged (critically, sympathetically, polemically, and often implicitly) the work of Derrida as his chief contemporary interlocutor.The book begins by examining the development of Agamben’s key con…
On the Impossibility of Saying "I"
On the Impossibility of Saying "I":Epistemological paradigms and poetic paradigms in the work of Furio Jesi Giorgio Agamben (bio) Translated by Kevin Attell Inversive Waw I have before me a translation of the Haggadah read during the Jewish seder, the ritual meal celebrated in the first two evenings of Pesach. Every gesture and every word of the participants, just like every element of the meal—from the matzot, the unleavened bread that recalls t…
Sensible Life
We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible life. This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, the…
Giorgio Agamben
This book traces Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's engagement with deconstructive thought from his early work to the present, showing how consistently and closely Agamben takes up (critically, sympathetically, polemically – and very often implicitly) the work of Jacques Derrida as his chief contemporary interlocutor. At its most fundamental level, Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, …
The Muse of Translation
Research Article| July 01 2012 The Muse of Translation: "Pure Language" in de Man, Derrida, and Agamben Kevin Attell Kevin Attell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (2): 69–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949785 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kevin Attell; The Muse of Translation: "Pure Language" in de Man, Derrida, an…
Potentiality, Actuality, Constituent Power
Potentiality, Actuality, Constituent Power Kevin Attell (bio) What is potential is that for which, if the act of which it is said to have the potential comes about, there will be nothing impotential. —Aristotle, Metaphysics 1047a 24–26 In theoretical debates of recent years, the issue with which Italian thought has been most closely associated is that of “biopolitics,” and it is probably not controversial to claim that within this milieu there ar…
The Signature of All Things
The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking in order to expose, examine, and elaborate what is obscure, unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an author's thought. To be archaeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a world supported by a thick weave of resemblances and sympathies, anal…
State of Exception
State of Exception
The Open
The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming—or has come—to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he maintained his privileged place as the master of, or first among, the animals? In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought o…
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The Open
The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming—or has come—to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he maintained his privileged place as the master of, or first among, the animals? In The Open, contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought o…
State of Exception
State of Exception
Potentiality, Actuality, Constituent Power
Potentiality, Actuality, Constituent Power Kevin Attell (bio) What is potential is that for which, if the act of which it is said to have the potential comes about, there will be nothing impotential. —Aristotle, Metaphysics 1047a 24–26 In theoretical debates of recent years, the issue with which Italian thought has been most closely associated is that of “biopolitics,” and it is probably not controversial to claim that within this milieu there ar…
The Signature of All Things
The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking in order to expose, examine, and elaborate what is obscure, unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an author's thought. To be archaeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a world supported by a thick weave of resemblances and sympathies, anal…
The Muse of Translation
Research Article| July 01 2012 The Muse of Translation: "Pure Language" in de Man, Derrida, and Agamben Kevin Attell Kevin Attell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (2): 69–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949785 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kevin Attell; The Muse of Translation: "Pure Language" in de Man, Derrida, an…
Giorgio Agamben
This book traces Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's engagement with deconstructive thought from his early work to the present, showing how consistently and closely Agamben takes up (critically, sympathetically, polemically – and very often implicitly) the work of Jacques Derrida as his chief contemporary interlocutor. At its most fundamental level, Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, …
Sensible Life
We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible life. This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, the…
On the Impossibility of Saying "I"
On the Impossibility of Saying "I":Epistemological paradigms and poetic paradigms in the work of Furio Jesi Giorgio Agamben (bio) Translated by Kevin Attell Inversive Waw I have before me a translation of the Haggadah read during the Jewish seder, the ritual meal celebrated in the first two evenings of Pesach. Every gesture and every word of the participants, just like every element of the meal—from the matzot, the unleavened bread that recalls t…
Giorgio Agamben
Agamben’s thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how throughout his career Agamben has consistently and closely engaged (critically, sympathetically, polemically, and often implicitly) the work of Derrida as his chief contemporary interlocutor.The book begins by examining the development of Agamben’s key con…
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