The Idea of ​​Prose Author: [Italy] Giorgio Agamben Translator: Wang Liqiu Publisher: Nanjing University Press

♠♦The Resurrection of the Question of the Relationship between Philosophy and Poetry♦♠

♣◐The round dance of true human language◐♥

♣♥A secret dialogue with Heidegger and Benjamin♥♣

♠♦ "Only when thought bears the "legacy of poetry" can it move towards the "idea of ​​prose""♦♠

♠♦The final chapter of Agamben’s aesthetic trilogy (Language and Death, Stanzas, The Idea of ​​Prose)♦♠

♣♥Dozens of fragmented analyses, fables, aphorisms, riddles, short stories, and various "simple forms" that people no longer use today. Agamben's critical practice is performed in these "digressive" works, and this digression is an indispensable part of Benjamin's criticism. ♥♣

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This book is Agamben's monograph on aesthetics. Through a series of fragmentary analyses of poetry, prose, language, politics, justice, love and shame, he enters the theme of the difference between philosophy and poetry. These fragmentary discussions do not form a consistent statement throughout the text, but the limitations of logos are broken here, and the difference between poetry and philosophy is no longer obvious.

Agamben uses a variety of literary techniques, including fables, aphorisms, riddles, short stories, and various "simple forms" that we no longer use today, demonstrating a critical method in practice - it brings readers an experience and an awakening, where the problems of thought become the problems of poetry.

Giorgio Agamben is a famous Italian contemporary philosopher and thinker. He has taught at many colleges and universities, including the University of Macerata, the University of Verona, the Venice School of Architecture, the International Institute of Philosophy in Paris, and the European Graduate School. His research fields are extensive and far-reaching. His mastery of literary theory, continental philosophy, political thought, religious studies, and literature and art make him one of the most challenging thinkers of our time.

His major works include "The Sacred Man", "The Kingdom and the Glory", "The State of Exception", "What Remains of Auschwitz", "The Hollow Men", "Childhood and History", "The Uses of the Body", "Openness", and "Language and Death".

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About the Translator

Wang Liqiu, a native of Mile, Yunnan, holds a doctorate in law from the School of International Relations of Peking University and is a lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Harbin Engineering University.