Giorgio Agamben is considered one of the most powerful and inspiring philosophers worldwide. His thought trespassed literature and esthetics, law and ethics, for continuously devoted itself to the question of power and politics. His radical criticism of western governments' politics after 1989 made him famous. With Homo Sacer his book about the «bare life» he became out of the blue in 1995 philosophy’s international star. Following The Times and Le Monde, Agamben is today one of the ten most powerful thinkers in the world.
Agamben already produces philosophy since the 1960s, when he began his philosophical journey that carried him to Germany and France, to the United States and other countries, getting into contact with people who configured twenties century’s thinking in decisive ways: Martin Heidegger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gilles Deleuze and others. Agamben shares with these thinkers the profound doubt of western rationality, because of the alarming indeterminacy of men’s existence, of it’s abyss.
This radio feature «In human’s abyss» introduces to the intellectual universe of Giorgio Agamben. It inspects the construction of his thought, looks for linkages and relations to other thinkers and asks what spines the philosopher to his attacks on politics, working with Agamben’s texts and those of other contemporaries of his time, as well as with his own voice, just as Giorgio Agamben concedes in this documentary for the first time a profound and extensive interview.
He talks about the beginning of his way in the 1960th, his initial law studies and his contacts to writers as Elsa Morante, Ingeborg Bachmann, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Primo Levi, about Heidegger and Benjamin, Deleuze and Foucault, about poetics and his interest in language, about his search of a human voice and his political studies, about Auschwitz, the Homo Sacer and the new wars in Ex-Yugoslavia, in Iraq and Afghanistan, about Guantanamo and the political system that we use to call democracy, about ethics after Auschwitz, Paul’s Letter To The Romans and different other themes.
With the voices of Giorgio Agamben, Heike Brunkhorst, Nora Patuzzi ed Umberto Naso.
Usefull Links
Giorgio Agamben @ European Graduate School Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Giorgio Agamben |
