Convention and Materialism: Uniqueness Without Aura Virno Paolo
Convention and Materialism: Uniqueness Without Aura Virno Paolo The first English translation of the book that established Paolo Virno as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his…
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Convention and Materialism: Uniqueness Without Aura Virno Paolo
The first English translation of the book that established Paolo Virno as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation.With the 1986 publication of this book in Italy, Paolo Virno established himself as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation. This MIT Press edition, translated by Italian philosopher and Insubordinations series editor Lorenzo Chiesa, is its first English-language version. Astonishingly, this crucial work has never before been published in an English translation.
Virno here engages, in an innovative and iconoclastic way, with some classical issues of philosophy involving experience, singularity, and the relation between ethics and language, while also offering a profoundly transformative political perspective that revolves around the Marxian notion of the "general intellect."Virno reconsiders Walter Benjamin's
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