Description The search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine pure and unmarked signs.
He is the author of Profanations (2007), Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (2002), both published by Zone Books, and other books..
About the Author Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice.
The Signature of All Things reveals once again why Agamben is one of the most innovative thinkers writing today.
And at each moment of the text, Agamben pays tribute to Michel Foucault, whose methods he rethinks and effectively uses to reformulate the logic of the concepts he isolates.
Each chapter is devoted to an investigation of one of these concepts and Agamben carefully constructs its genealogy transhistorically and from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Three conceptual figures organize Agamben\'s argument and the advent of his new method: the paradigm, the signature, and archaeology.
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, analogies and correspondences." Collecting a wide range of authors and topics in a slim but richly argued volume, Agamben enacts the search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine the pure and unmarked signs that signify univocally, neutrally, and eternally.
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.
The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben\'s sustained reflection on method.
Description The search to create a science of signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to determine pure and unmarked signs
