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The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath

by: Giorgio Agamben

Publisher: Stanford University Press (2008)

$20.00

In this Nietzschean archaeology of the oath, Agamben traces the inception of the sacrament of language back to its foundation, claiming that such a genealogy is far older than imagined.