Unrealizable - Giorgio Agamben

A Patient, Genealogical Investigation Of The Dichotomies That Are Foundational To The Western Philosophical Tradition. We Are So To Distinguishing Between The Possible And The Real, Between Essence And Existence That We Do Not Realize That These Distinctions, Which Seem So Obvious To Us, Are The Result Of A Long And Laborious Process That Has Led To The Splitting Of Beingthe Matter Of Thoughtinto Two Fragments That Are Both Conflicting And Intimately Intertwined. This Book Argues That The Ontological-political Machine Of The West Is Based On The Splitting Of This Matter, Without Which Neither Science Nor Politics Would Be Possible.