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Essay on negation. For a linguistic anthropology // Paolo Virno

Essay on negation. For a linguistic anthropology // Paolo Virno

203 pages, Bollati, 2013


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As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What particle might this be? The word not.


In Essay on Negation, Paolo Virno argues that the importance of the not is perhaps comparable only to that of money—that is, the universality of exchange. Negation is what separates verbal thought from silent cognitive operations, such as feelings and mental images. 


For more information:

https://www.bollatiboringhieri.it/libri/paolo-virno-saggio-sulla-negazione-9788833924694/


English edition: 

https://www.seagullbooks.org/essay-on-negation/

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