Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers)How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a dumb experience? For Walter Benjamin, the poverty of experience was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the First World War. For Giorgio Agamben, the Italian editor of Benjamins complete works, the destruction of experience no longer needs catastrophes: daily life in any modern city will suffice. Agambens

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