Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory

by Giacomo Marramao

In this book Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta M ller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. This book explores the issue of power from a philosophical literary perspective. It tackles the linguistic and literary relations between the notions of "power" and "potential"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611496195
• ISBN13: 9781611496192
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: John Cabot University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"