Abstract

FLEISNER, Paula. The Mysterious Life of Power. The Importance of the Concept of "Power" to the Development of the Agambenian Concept of Life. Prax. filos. [online]. 2012, n.35, pp.187-210. ISSN 0120-4688.

The paper provides an analysis of a series of articles in which Giorgio Agamben presents a reading of the problem of the dynamis. This discussion is crucial not only for understanding his participation in the contemporary philosophical-political debates, but also for understanding the conceptual implications of the concept of "Life" in the framework of his own philosophy. For this purpose, we evaluate in the light of the interpretation of Latin Averroism, firstly, the Agambenian reading of the Aristotelian topic of "passive intellect" as well as the consequences that Agamben extracts for Thought and Politics. And secondly, we build an interpretation of what we call a "potential life". Bartleby, a literary figure of the power that emerges as one of the possible modes of political resistance, becomes then an example of this notion.

Keywords : dynamis; passive intellect; living; Politics; Bartleby.

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