Form(s)-of-life

Agamben's reading of Wittgenstein and the potential uses of a notion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4944726
AutoresMatías Leandro Saidel (0000-0002-6188-1257, Universidad Católica de Santa Fe, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume37
Fascículo1
Páginas163-186
Data de publicação2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTrans/Form/Ação (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0101-3173 • E-ISSN: 1980-539X
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0101-31732014000100009
OpenAlexW2087494545
SCIELO_PIDS0101-31732014000100009
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas10

Giorgio Agamben and Ludwig Wittgenstein seem to have very little in common: the former is concerned with traditional ontological issues while the latter was interested in logics and ordinary language, avoiding metaphysical issues as something we cannot speak about. However, both share a crucial notion for their philosophical projects: form of life. In this paper, I try to show that, despite their different approaches and goals, form of life is for both a crucial notion for thinking ethics and life in-common. Addressing human existence in its constitutive relation to language, this notion deconstructs traditional dichotomies like bios and zoé, the cultural and the biological, enabling both authors to think of a life which cannot be separated from its forms, recognizing the commonality of logos as the specific trait of human existence. Through an analogical reading between both theoretical frameworks, I suggest that the notion of form-of-life, elaborated by Wittgenstein to address human production of meaning, becomes the key notion in Agamben's affirmative thinking since it enables us to consider the common ontologically in its relation to Human potentialities and to foresee a new, common use of the world and ourselves

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