In attempting to answer the question posed by this book\'s title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself.
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A summa, of sorts, of Agamben\'s thought, the book consists of five essays on five emblematic topics: the Voice, the Sayable, the Demand, the Proem, and the Muse.
Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that come together to make up the phrases and ideas of philosophical discourse.
In attempting to answer the question posed by this book\'s title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself