Giorgio Agamben Quotes on Knowledge
Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose Homo Sacer project, begun in 1995, has reshaped contemporary political philosophy through a radical genealogy of sovereignty, bare life, and the state of exception. This page collects quotes attributed to Giorgio Agamben on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Giorgio Agamben:
“What can no longer be said can still be shown.”
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“In the eyes of authority – and maybe rightly so – nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.”
What is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays (2009), Stanford University Press, p. 35. -
“What is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays (2009), Stanford University Press, p. 35.”
In the eyes of authority – and maybe rightly so – nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. -
“Giorgio Agamben, "What is a commandment?" March 28, 2011”
Antoine Meillet also noted that imperatives in European languages are typically the morphological root of the verb, and hypothesised that the imperative was the primitive form of a verb: “walk!” precedes “to walk” or “he walks”. This opens up the possibility of an alternative ontology , or pre-ontology, based on commandment rather than assertion, on “be!” rather than “is”. While philosophical or s -
“Giorgio Agamben. What is a Paradigm? . Retrieved on November 14, 2015.”
Kuhn acknowledges having used the term "paradigm" in two different meanings. In the first one, "paradigm" designates what the members of a certain scientific community have in common, that is to say, the whole of techniques, patents and values shared by the members of the community. In the second sense, the paradigm is a single element of a whole, say for instance Newton’s Principia, which, acting