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GF colloquium: Ype de Boer on Agamben
21 February 2018 @ 15:00 - 17:00
Giorgio Agamben is best known for his /Homo sacer /(Italian: 1995), in which he formulates a fundamental critique of Western politics. Less known, however, is that this critique relies on the reflections on language that Agamben had developed in his earlier works, most notably /Infancy and History /(Italian: 1979), /Language and Death /(Italian: 1982) and /Potentialities /(most essays written between 1978-1990). Before focusing directly on politics, Agamben concerned himself with the way in which humans ‘have’ language. If man is the /zoon logon echon/, then what is the meaning of the ‘echon’, Agamben asks. In this lecture I will focus on Agamben’s notion of infancy as a response to this question, and the way in which this notion anticipates Agamben’s later works on politics and ethics
Ype de Boer is a PhD-candidate in philosophy on the VU, studying the work of contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. He has translated Agamben’s /Profanazioni/, co-translated Badiou’s /Eloge de l’amour /and written a readers-guide to Oswald Spenglers /De ondergang van het Avondland/. Recently his philosophical interpretation of the fiction of Japanese author Haruki Murakami, titled /Murakami en het gespleten leven/, was published.
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