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Karman : A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture / Giorgio Agamben.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agamben, Giorgio, Author.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law and ethics.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Free will and determinism.
- Act (Philosophy).
- Responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Translator’s Note
- 1. Causa and Culpa
- 2. Crimen and Karman
- 3. The Aporias of the Will
- 4. Beyond Action
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9781503605831
- 1503605833
- OCLC:
- 1178769785
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