Giorgio Agamben Quotes on Knowledge
Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer project (Homo Sacer, 1995; State of Exception, 2003; The Kingdom and the Glory, 2007; The Use of Bodies, 2014) gives contemporary continental political philosophy one of its most ambitious archaeologies of the modern political-legal order. The central commitments — that the sovereign exception that suspends the legal order is the constitutive operation of Western political authority, that the bare life produced by this operation has become the principal political stake of late liberal democracy, and that the philological-philosophical genealogy of these structures must be carried back through Roman law, patristic theology, and the long medieval tradition — articulate a distinctive method of philosophical archaeology indebted to Foucault, Benjamin, and the broader continental tradition. The framework shaped the contemporary critical engagement with sovereignty, biopolitics, and the philosophical interpretation of the modern juridical order.
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. -
“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