The Signature of All Things: On Method Giorgio Agamben, Luca di Santo (Translator)
Publisher: Zone Books
ISBN: 1890951986
DDC: 195
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-12-31
Summary:
The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection
on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological
vigilance: a persistent form of thinking in order to expose, examine,
and elaborate what is obscure, unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an
author's thought. To be archaeologically vigilant, then, is to return
to, even invent, a method attuned to a "world supported by a thick
weave of resemblances and sympathies, analogies and correspondences."
Collecting a wide range of authors and topics in a slim but richly
argued volume, Agamben enacts the search to create a science of
signatures that exceeds the attempts of semiology and hermeneutics to
determine the pure and unmarked signs that signify univocally,
neutrally, and eternally. Three conceptual figures organize Agamben's
argument and the advent of his new method: the paradigm, the
signature, and archaeology. Each chapter is devoted to an
investigation of one of these concepts and Agamben carefully
constructs its genealogy transhistorically and from an
interdisciplinary perspective. And at each moment of the text,
Agamben pays tribute to Michel Foucault, whose methods he rethinks
and effectively uses to reformulate the logic of the concepts he
isolates. The Signature of All Things reveals once again why Agamben
is one of the most innovative thinkers writing today. Distributed for
Zone Books
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