The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archaeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking in order to expose, examine, and elaborate what is obscure, unanalyzed, even unsaid, in an author's thought. To be archaeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a -world supported by a thick weave of resemblances and sympathies, analogies and correspondences.- Collecting a wide range of authors and topics in a slim but richly argued volume, Agamben enacts the search to create...