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Thinking relationality in Agamben and Levinas

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:53 authored by Tom Frost
Giorgio 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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  • Published

Journal

Griffith Law Review

ISSN

1038-3441

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Griffith University, Griffith Law School, Socio-Legal Research Centre

Issue

2

Volume

23

Page range

210-231

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  • Law Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2014-03-19

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