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- Title
THE POWER OF NOTHINGNESS: NEGATIVE THOUGHT IN AGAMBEN.
- Authors
Barber, Daniel Colucciello
- Abstract
This paper addresses the nature and value of Giorgio Agamben's negative thought, which revolves around the theme of nothingness. I begin by observing the validity of negative thinking, and thus oppose those affirmative philosophies that reject Agamnben's thought simply on the basis of its negativity. Indeed, the importance of negative thought is set forth by Agamnben's attention to the specific biopolitical logic that governs the present. If we are to understand the present, then we must begin by understanding the nothingness inherent in the logic of biopolitics. At the same time, I argue, it is important to distinguish two kinds of negative thought. The first, ultimately limited manner of negative thou gut follows a strictly Heideggerian path of contemplation. While Agamben shows a certain affinity with this style of thinking. I call for increased focus on a different manner of negative thought. one that turns on the power to think nothingness. I develop this second manner of negative thought by advancing the concepts of love and exile, which provide the means by which the potentiality of nothingness may inhabited in novel ways.
- Publication
Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy / Revue Canadienne de Philosophie Continentale, 2011, Vol 15, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1917-9685
- Publication type
Academic Journal