02511oam 2200481M 450 991080962270332120190503073440.00-262-34523-4(CKB)4340000000258338(OCoLC)1028228466(MdBmJHUP)muse66528(StDuBDS)EDZ0001927575(MiAaPQ)EBC5317853(OCoLC)1028228466(OCoLC)1028068438(OCoLC)1028225782(OCoLC)1028527412(OCoLC)1028544444(OCoLC-P)1028228466(MaCbMITP)11396(PPN)255159064(EXLCZ)99434000000025833820170622d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe adventure /Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Lorenzo ChiesaCambridge, MA :MIT Press,2018.1 online resourcePreviously issued in print: 2018.0-262-03759-9 Includes bibliographical references.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure - not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth. --Provided by publisher.Adventure and adventurersPhilosophyPHILOSOPHY/GeneralCULTURAL STUDIES/GeneralAdventure and adventurersPhilosophy.904Agamben Giorgio1942-35813OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910809622703321The adventure4109326UNINA