Agamben Giorgio. Idea of Prose

Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. — 152 p. — ISBN10: 0791423808; ISBN13: 978-0791423806 — (SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)In this book, thought seeks a new form, a new “prose.” To this end, it brings into play the strategies of the apology, the aphorism, the short story, the fable, the riddle, and all those “simple forms” that are today no longer used, but whose task it has always been to bring about in the reader an experience, an awakening — rather than attempting to put forth a theory. It is only in this sense — insofar as thought contends with the exposition of an Idea — that the problem of “thought” becomes, in these “treatises,” a poetic problem. These are little ideas or forms that, in their brevity, compress that which cannot in any way be forgotten, since according to the platonic admonition, it would be put in “the shortest possible measure.”Integral Actuality. Alexander Garcia Duttman
ThresholdThe Idea of Matter
The Idea of Prose
The Idea of Caesura
The Idea of Vocation
The Idea of the Unique
The Idea of Dictation
The Idea of Truth
The Idea of the Muse
The Idea of Love
The Idea of Study
The Idea of the ImmemorableThe Idea of Power
The Idea of Communism
The idea of Politics
The Idea of Justice
The Idea of Peace
The Idea of Shame
The Idea of Epoch
The Idea of Music
The Idea of Happiness
The Idea of Infancy
The Idea of Universal JudgmentThe Idea of Thought
The Idea of the Name
The Idea of the Enigma
The Idea of Silence
The Idea of Language
The Idea of Language II
The Idea of Light
The Idea of Appearance
The Idea of Glory
The Idea of Death
The Idea of AwakeningThresholdKafka Defended Against His Interpreters