Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche , or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to govern through continuous creation, as it is for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360926X
• ISBN13: 9781503609266
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"