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Series: Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 03 August 2021
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12543.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262365413
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262345231
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262345231
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262345231
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262345231
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262345231
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262345231
Book: The Adventure
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262345231
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 09 March 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11396.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262345231
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. 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.