Beskrivelse uden sted:

Om Giorgio Agambens paradigmeteori og det litterært singulære

Authors

  • Jørn Erslev Andersen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/sl.v2015i72.107206

Keywords:

paradigm, singularity, exemplarity, time, narrativity

Abstract

The essay presents Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the paradigm in the first chapter of The Signature of All Things. On Method (2009) in order to better understand the well-known use of references to and qoutations from literature (poems and novels) in philosophical reasoning and theory. Agamben’s uncommented reference to two short stanzas from Wallace Stevens’ poem “Description without Place”, which he consider the best definition of a paradigmatic ontology, is briefly commented. A gathering of three ‘literary singularities’ from Friedrich Hölderlin/Sophocles, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett in a suggested paradigm on time is presented as an example of a solely literary way of philosophical thinking.

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Published

2015-08-15

How to Cite

Andersen, J. E. (2015). Beskrivelse uden sted:: Om Giorgio Agambens paradigmeteori og det litterært singulære. Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 2015(72), 127–140. https://doi.org/10.7146/sl.v2015i72.107206