Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agambenis an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-lifeand homo sacer. The concept of biopoliticsinforms many of his writings...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 April 1942
CountryItaly
Giorgio Agamben quotes about
bears essential fragile legitimacy sole source state task within
The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
The coming being is whatever being.
past remembrance becoming
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.
life-and-death decision political
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.
space states camps
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
demand contemporary disconnection
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
transformed dies
God did not die; he was transformed into money
believe decision morality
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.
eye men ordinary
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
war mean political
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system
children order law
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.