On Contemporaneity Today, after Agamben

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"Who are our contemporaries today? From among the thinkers of the last "great generation" of the past century, who are the precursors whose voice is strong enough to speak to our present today? Or again, is it not philosophy but rather art that measures up to the intensity of the forces pressing against us in the present? These are some of the questions that animate two volumes of critical essays written in the aftermath of Agamben's influential essay "What is the contemporary?" ... re-opening the question of contemporaneity today"--Page 4 of cover.