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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795416003321

Autore

Agamben Giorgio

Titolo

Karman : A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture / / Giorgio Agamben

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2018

ISBN

1-5036-0583-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 pages)

Collana

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Altri autori (Persone)

KotskoAdam

Disciplina

174/.3

Soggetti

Law and ethics

Law - Philosophy

Free will and determinism

Act (Philosophy)

Responsibility

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Note -- 1. Causa and Culpa -- 2. Crimen and Karman -- 3. The Aporias of the Will -- 4. Beyond Action -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

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.