Nymphs
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Classical Journal
“Agamben’s core argument is concise, although his discussion ranges far and wide over authors and disciplines, from a discussion of a work by the video artist Bill Viola to comments on an essay on the poetics of dance by Domenico da Piaccnza (mid-fifteenth century) and discussions of Aby Warburg and his seminal notion of Pathosformel; from discussions of a vast, ‘bizarre’ unpublished manuscript by an otherwise unknown Chicago recluse, via comments on Walter Benjamin (of whom Agamben is an important interpreter) and his notion of dialectic at a standstill, to discussions of Theodore Adorno, Giovanni Boccaccio (who says: ‘It is quite true that they [nymphs] are all female, but they don’t piss’), Giordano Bruno and more. Agamben’s scope will make your head spin.”
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Art: Art--General Studies
Philosophy: Aesthetics
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