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BL
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Record Number
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615321
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Uniform Title
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Quando il verbo si fa carne.English
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Main Entry
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Virno, Paolo,1952-
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Title & Author
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When the word becomes flesh : : language and human nature /\ Paolo Virno ; translated by Giuseppina Mecchia.
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Series Statement
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Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
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Page. NO
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263 pages ;; 24 cm.
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ISBN
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1584350946
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: 9781584350941
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Notes
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Translation of: Quando il verbo si fa carne.
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"Originally published in Italian in 2002, 'When the word becomes flesh' provides a compelling contribution to the understanding of language and its relation to human nature and social relationships. Adopting Aristotle's definition of the human being as a linguistic and political animal, Paolo Virno frames the act of speech as a foundational philosophical issue - an act that in its purely performative essence ultimately determines our ability to pass from the state of possibility to one of actuality: that is, from the power to act to action itself."--Page 4 of cover.
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents
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Part one: the act of speaking -- The speaker as performing artist -- The absolute performative -- The repetition of anthropogenesis -- Part two: toward a critic of interiority -- Second-degree sensualism: a physiognomic project -- In praise of reification -- Part three: from the beginning and right now -- Natural history -- The multitude and the principle of individuation -- Appendix: Wittgenstein and the question of atheism.
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Subject
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Language and languages-- Philosophy.
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Subject
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Philosophy.
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Added Entry
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Mecchia, Giuseppina,1962-
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