To live means to read: Agamben’s messianism as an archaeological inquiry
This article aims to elucidate the relationship between Agamben’s notion of messianism and his project of philosophical archaeology. Whereas the former relates to political and ethical aspects of Agamben’s philosophy, the latter belongs to the domain of methodology of philosophical research itself....
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Taylor & Francis
2023
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International journal of philosophy and theology
Année: 2023, Volume: 84, Numéro: 2, Pages: 114-132 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Agamben, Giorgio 1942-
/ Messianisme
/ Activité politique
/ Découragement
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| RelBib Classification: | NCD Éthique et politique TK Époque contemporaine VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Genealogy
B Destituent power B Messianism B Philosophical archaeology B Agamben B Political Theology |
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| Résumé: | This article aims to elucidate the relationship between Agamben’s notion of messianism and his project of philosophical archaeology. Whereas the former relates to political and ethical aspects of Agamben’s philosophy, the latter belongs to the domain of methodology of philosophical research itself. The main thesis of the paper argues that these two components rely on each other and constitute one and the same project. The author demonstrates that Agamben’s notion of messianic action and scholarly activity of philosophical archaeology overlap, which leads to a problematization of political dimension of Agamben’s messianism. The orientation towards the past in Agamben’s understanding of the messianic is its crucial presupposition that imposes limits on its applicability to the realm of politics. This thesis is substantiated by an investigation of the problem of relation between theory and practice in Agamben’s thought and by a close reading of the ‘Mystery of Anomia’ section in The Time that Remains. Beginning with the problem of the possibility of a transition from the tragic narrative elaborated in the Homo Sacer project to the messianic state of lawlessness, the author demonstrates that in Agamben’s thought this transition is made possible only by means of an archaeological inquiry. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2023.2213269 |