The Sacrament of Language by Giorgio Agamben

Homo Sacer #II.3

The Sacrament of Language

Giorgio Agamben

128 pages paperback 2008

5 editions

nonfiction philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of religion, there exists no complete analysis of the o...

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