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Agamben e la nozione aristotelica di «potenza»

Simone G. Seminara

(Universidade de São Paulo -USP)
simoneseminara@hotmail.it

 
 
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Abstract: Aristotle’s philosophy plays a preeminent role in Giorgio Agamben’s thought. It might be said that the whole enquiry on the nexus between metaphysics and politics that Agamben develops in Homo Sacer is grounded on a critical analysis of the Aristotelian concept of dynamis (potentiality). While in Sovereign power and bare life the relation between constituent and constituted power is said to depend on the way by which one reads the existence and the autonomy of potentiality, in The use of bodies the concept of use is … Continua a leggere

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