On 24 February CCEP-member Ype de Boer will publish Een filosofisch rariteitenkabinet – Agambens zoektocht naar geluk,at Boom publishing.
The book's festive presentation will take place on Thursday 27 February during a lecture at Radboud Reflects. For more information and tickets, visit the event page over at Radboud Reflects. The book is already the third work in Boom's series of introductions to contemporary thinkers to be written by a CCEP-affiliated author. Previously, on Bruno Latour and on Jean-Paul Sartre's work were published in the same series.
From the (in Dutch):
Musing on his philosophical life, the influential thinker Giorgio Agamben once wrote that he is driven by a desire to find out with all his might whether there is something in heaven or on earth that makes possible an "eternal and just happiness". To the general public, Agamben is instead known as a doomsayer, a fearless critic of the political present, pessimistic to the point of nihilism. How do his dark cultural analyses relate to this search for happiness?
In 'Een filosofisch rariteitenkabinet' Ype de Boer shows how Agamben takes up the millennia-old philosophical quest for happiness in radically new ways. In doing so, he focuses on the many idiosyncratic characters, places and creatures that populate Agamben's world. True to Agamben's evocative, poetic thinking style, De Boer turns the most important figures and themes from the Italian thinker's work into manageable miniatures in twenty short sketches. Following the crumb trail of those figures, he opens a new perspective on happiness.
About the author
Ype de Boer (1989) is a philosopher and lecturer at uu77. He is a translator of Agamen's work and author of Agamben’s Ethics of the Happy Life (2024). Previously he wrote Het erotisch experiment – Voorbij de moderne seksuele identiteit (2019) andMurakami en het gespleten leven (2017). For his dissertation on Agamben, he received the prestigious Legatum Stolpianum in 2024.
