# Infancy and History

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- Book: [Infancy and History](https://www.bookquiver.com/giorgio-agamben/infancy-and-history) ([Infancy and History.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/giorgio-agamben/infancy-and-history.md))
- Authors: [Agamben](https://www.bookquiver.com/giorgio-agamben), [Liz Heron](https://www.bookquiver.com/liz-heron)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-4467-571-5
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2007-01-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a “dumb” experience? For Walter Benjamin, the “poverty of experience”...