The Body of Language is a scholarly study of how Renaissance giant tales by Rabelais and Folengo use exuberant, boundary-breaking language to treat words as unruly, bodily forces rather than orderly vehicles of meaning.
About The Author
Giorgio Agamben , the Italian philosopher, is known for the Homo Sacer project and influential concepts such as “bare life” and the “state of exception.” A student of Heidegger’s seminars, he bridges literature, philology and political theory.
A reflective self-portrait in which Giorgio Agamben reveals his life and thought indirectly through the poets, philosophers, artists, and objects that have shaped his intellectual world.
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