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Document Details : Title: Language and Athropogenesis Subtitle: Agamben's Profanity Author(s): TRITTEN, Tyler Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 76 Issue: 3 Date: 2014 Pages: 477-502 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.76.3.3044811 Abstract : The purpose of this article is to substantiate Agamben’s thesis that the originary experience of language as a performative speech-act, i.e. as an oath that guarantees the veridicality or efficacy of the speech-act, exposes the ethical relation to language as the origination of the human qua human, despite Agamben’s disenchantment rather than re-enchantment of language. This task first requires the elucidation of the seemingly magical and intimate connection between words and things, which will be proposed under the rubric of ‘tautegory’. Finally, I will seek to show how Agamben’s analysis of language as performative and anthropogenic is not just ethical, but also opens the space for a profane Messiah. Agamben’s profane messianism will be elucidated through an analysis of the Voice as the witness to the pre-linguistic. |
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