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Thinking relationality in Agamben and Levinas
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 16:53 authored by Tom FrostGiorgio Agamben’s development of a messianic politics-to-come seeks to counter the law which is in force without significance, a law which creates bare life. Embodying this messianic politics, and a call for the law’s fulfilment, is the figure of whatever-being, a form-of-life. This article contends that there is an important conceptual problem in respect of Agamben’s construction of such a form-of-life, namely the issue of relationality. The problem of relationality in Agamben is explored here through the comparative lens of relationality in Levinas’s thought. It is contended that Agamben’s messianic subject, his form-of-life, has a negative relation to its other, in contrast to Levinas’s positive, subject forming view of relationality.
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Publication status
- Published
Journal
Griffith Law ReviewISSN
1038-3441Publisher
Griffith University, Griffith Law School, Socio-Legal Research CentreExternal DOI
Issue
2Volume
23Page range
210-231Department affiliated with
- Law Publications
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