Karman

A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Free Will & Determinism, Political
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Author: Giorgio Agamben ISBN: 9781503605831
Publisher: Stanford University Press Publication: April 3, 2018
Imprint: Stanford University Press Language: English
Author: Giorgio Agamben
ISBN: 9781503605831
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication: April 3, 2018
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Language: English

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground.

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What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology both transform into the paradigm for all of human life. In his search for a way out of this destructive paradigm, Agamben not only draws on minority opinions within the Western tradition but engages at length with Buddhist texts and concepts for the first time. In sum, Karman deepens and rearticulates some of Agamben's core insights while breaking significant new ground.

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