Bite-sized book reviews: Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben (1998)
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What Agamben offers in the form of his landmark Homo Sacer cannot help but be impressive - “impressive” across the various shades of meaning attached to the term. The breath-taking sweep, and formidable erudition marshaled in defence of his thesis, are, irrespective of the myriad ways in which a critical reader may diverge from his conclusions, impressive, “impressive” in the sense of making a forceful impact upon the reader beyond a favourable appeal to critical faculties, impressive in the air of gravitas and Delphic portentousness it cultivates, which is more than merely visceral, yet not of a rational character, belonging most rightfully to the sphere in which the arcana of sempiternal religious riddles make their indelible impressions. As impressive - as in original and encompassing as an academic treatise - as
Bite-sized book reviews: Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben (1998)
Bite-sized book reviews: Homo Sacer by…
Bite-sized book reviews: Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben (1998)
What Agamben offers in the form of his landmark Homo Sacer cannot help but be impressive - “impressive” across the various shades of meaning attached to the term. The breath-taking sweep, and formidable erudition marshaled in defence of his thesis, are, irrespective of the myriad ways in which a critical reader may diverge from his conclusions, impressive, “impressive” in the sense of making a forceful impact upon the reader beyond a favourable appeal to critical faculties, impressive in the air of gravitas and Delphic portentousness it cultivates, which is more than merely visceral, yet not of a rational character, belonging most rightfully to the sphere in which the arcana of sempiternal religious riddles make their indelible impressions. As impressive - as in original and encompassing as an academic treatise - as