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Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright 4 CONTENTS 5 Editor's Note 7 Editor's Inttoduction: "To Read What Was Never Written" 9 PART ONE: Language 32 1. Language 33 2. The Idea of Language 45 3. Language and History: Linguistic and Historical Categories in Benjamin's Thought 54 4. Philosophy and Linguistics 68 5. Kommerell, or On Gesture 83 PART TWO: History 92 6. Aby Warburg and the Nameless Science 93 7. Tradition of the Immemorial 108 8. *Se: Hegel's Absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis 120 9. Walter Benjamin and the Demonic: Happiness and Historical Redemption 142 10. The Messiah and the Sovereign: The Problem of Law in Walter Benjamin 164 PART THREE: Potentiality 179 11. On Potentiality 180 12. The Passion of Facticity 188 13. Pardes: The Writing of Potentiality 208 14. Absolute Immanence 223 PART FOUR: Contingency 243 15. Bartelby, or On Contingency 244 Notes 273 Index of Names 301

Author

Giorgio Agamben

Published

2011

Language

EN

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-13