The Paradoxical Transmission of Tradition and Agamben's Potential Reading of the Rishonim

Comparative and Continental Philosophy 3 (2):225-242 (2011)
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This essay explores the significance of Agamben’s sparse references to medieval Jewish thinkers (that is, the Rishonim) and raises the question as to whether the modern interpretive horizon of “history” is adequate for providing an understanding of these thinkers

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Potentialities: collected essays in philosophy.Giorgio Agamben - 1999 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by Daniel Heller-Roazen.

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