ARGONAUT BOOKS

What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in 'The Kingdom and the Garden', Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and the prospects for political transformation. In a tour-de-force reinterpretation of the Christian tradition, Agamben shows that the Garden of Eden has always served as a symbol for humanity's true nature. Where earlier theologians viewed the expulsion as temporary, Augustine's doctrine of original sin makes it permanent, reimagining humanity as the p...Read More