Description
| Product ID: | 9781781686126 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Verso Futures |
| Title: | Deja Vu and the End of History |
| Authors: | Author: Paolo Virno, David Broder |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. Déjà vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the “end of history.” Through thinkers such as Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno shows how our perception of history can become suspended or paralysed, making the distinction between “before” and “after,” cause and effect, seem derisory. In examining the way the experience of time becomes historical, Virno forms a radical new theory of historical temporality. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-02-03 |
