Alta L. Price

An engaging collection of late-life reflections and quick thoughts, a book unlike any other Agamben book. What can the senses of an attentive philosopher see, hear, and learn that can, in turn, teach us about living better lives? Perhaps it’s less a matter of asking what and more a matter of asking how. These latest reflections from Italy’s foremost philosopher...

Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor – 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer is a book about bitter fates—both already known and yet to unfold—and the many kinds of organised machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, with the extermination of the Jews forming its gravitational centre....

Hölderlin’s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Alta L. Price, explores the profound questions surrounding existence through the lens of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin. Agamben, one of Europe's revered philosophers, provides an insightful analysis of Hölderlin's life and work. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self?...