{"product_id":"the-unspeakable-girl","title":"The Unspeakable Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eItalian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas  and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans  are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory,  sociology, and literary criticism as well. Agamben’s intuition and  meditation are fascinating, and not least when he turns his critical eye  to the mysteries and contradictions of early religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore\u003c\/i\u003e  is a book of three richly detailed treatments of the myth of Kore.  Kore, also called Persephone, and referred to poetically by the Greeks  as “the unspeakable girl,” was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was  abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld. Kore and her story  gave rise to a mysterious cult at Eleusis, the site of the well where  Demeter mourned her lost daughter. This book opens with an innovative  and insightful essay that focuses on the mysterious indeterminacy of the  figure of Kore\/Persephone—at once a woman and a girl, a virgin and a  mother—as well as the attendant divisions of speech and silence, the  sacred and the profane, the animal and the human, and the mortal and the  divine. Here, tracing these dichotomies, Agamben is in top form, able  to articulate paradoxes that in another writer’s hands might be  ineffable. In the second and third parts of the book the reader is  treated to a series of beautiful paintings by acclaimed artist Monica  Ferrando, as well as her translation of crucial Greek and Latin source  materials. As a whole, \u003ci\u003eThe Unspeakable Girl\u003c\/i\u003e will not only be  welcomed by Agamben’s many readers across the disciplines, but also by  enthusiasts of classical mythology in general.","brand":"Leland de la Durantaye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42848854999101,"sku":"9780857420831","price":37.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780857420831_baccfa84-b19a-4799-999f-bdc95db1029a.jpg?v=1766989554","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-unspeakable-girl","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}