by Giorgio Agamben · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788578970055
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«O que é o contemporâneo? e outros ensaios» is the book of philosophical essays by Giorgio Agamben, published by Argos in paperback, in Portuguese (92 pages).
In these essays, Giorgio Agamben reflects on what it means to be contemporary and on the relationship between human action and time. Drawing on the «Nicomachean Ethics», he addresses friendship as an ontological and political question, and proposes an experience that perceives the darkness and discontinuity of the present.
Original title: «Che cos'è il contemporaneo?» (2005). This 2009 Brazilian edition is translated by Vinícius Nicastro Honsko.
For readers of contemporary philosophy and critical theory, interested in the thought of Giorgio Agamben.
Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose work spans political theory, ontology, aesthetics, and literature. He is best known for developing the concept of homo sacer and exploring the relationship between sovereignty, legal authority, and what he calls 'bare life'. His writings draw on sources including Aristotle, Roman law, Christian theology, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, St. Augustine and Carl Schmitt among others, and engage critically with Michel Foucault’s account of biopolitics and biopower. Agamben’s multi-volume Homo Sacer project has been widely discussed within political philosophy, jurisprudence, anthropology, and the humanities, and he is considered one of the most influential writers in contemporary continental philosophy.
