Philosophical Archaeology (Suny Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Ido Govrin

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering, for the first time, a full historicized accounting of philosophical archaeology, Ido Govrin delineates how this overarching method of historical inquiry has today become associated, to a large extent, with the work of Giorgio Agamben-and how it constitutes Agamben's philosophy of history in particular. As befits a book situated at an intellectual crossroads that brings together a range of discourses-philosophy, history, aesthetics, theology, and philology-Govrin conceives of philosophical archaeology as a multifaceted concept, on a broad scale. The discussion slides along the length of the multilateral fault line and into the related fields of contemporary art and art history/theory. In doing so, it illuminates the potential for philosophical archaeology, as an artistic modus operandi in the broader context of contemporary art, to expand our conception of history and historiographic research, and for this sense of history to expand our conception of art, in turn. At stake in this consideration is the possibility of a new, materially based philosophy of history.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Gloss I—Agamben’s Methodology
Chapter One The History of Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben
[1]
Gloss II—First Beginning and the Before of the Book
[2]
Gloss III—Dishomogeneity
Gloss IV—Genealogy
Gloss V—ArchÉ
[3]
Gloss VI—Archaeology
Gloss VII—Historical a Priori
[4]
Gloss VIII—The Contemporary
[5]
[6]
Chapter Two Toward Agamben’s Philosophy of History
A: The Theological-Philological Axis (Messianic Time)
[1]
[2]
[3]
B: The Philological-Aesthetical Axis (or, the Benjaminian Agamben)
[1]
[2]
Gloss IX—Messianic Language
[3]
Gloss X—Cinematic Montage and History
Gloss XI—Paradigms and Signatures
[4]
Gloss XII—The Historical and the Philological
[5]
Gloss XIII—Aesthetics and Epistemology
[6]
Chapter Three Ar[t]chaeology
A: Beauty that Falls
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
B: Philosophical Archaeology as Artistic Modus Operandi
[1]
Gloss XIV—Art Writing
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index