Linguaggio e passioni nella filosofia di Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

According to Giorgio Agamben, through passions, human being is able to deal with himself and with his own language. The metaphysical tradition has made three theoretical operations: 1) the inner scission of language as binary series (langue-parole, signified-signifier etc.) was, at the same time, placed and hidden; 2) the language’s foundation research was made giving primacy to one of the terms of those dichotomies; 3) language’s existence (aver-luogo del linguaggio) has been presupposed. During the nihilisms age, the Western thought achieves its extreme phase and it becomes conscious about the negativity of language’s foundation proposed by tradition (Voce). To overcome nihilism and metaphysics Agamben wants to suggest an experience of language as an unfounded existence. In this way passions play a significant role: a) through Martin Heidegger, Agamben thinks Angst (anguish) as bring back human being to the traditional scission of language; b) Agamben explains the Amor (love) investigated by Dante as an experience of language's human practice (ethos); c) the shame, mentioned by Emmanuel Lévinas, shows up how the Subject is linguistically articulated. Agamben takes distances from the main scientific theories about emotions and proposes a human sociality finally as anarchist.

DOI: 10.4396/20130303