Between the dialectical identity of identity with self and difference from self, and the ontological difference that refuses sublation, stands Agamben, on a certain limit between absolute knowledge and the unknowable negativity of its putative other. To know an entity, even the whole universe, thought must grasp both that entity and its beyond, perched precisely on the limit of knowability.The author describes this limit as the place where Agamben has chosen to set up his home. The limit of knowability is also the limit of communicability, and thus the philosopher’s territory is not simply language and the speakable but somewhere in between the speakable and the ineffable, the space of the potential to say, the pregnancy of the event of a language as yet merely prefigured on the lips.
Agamben,Or the Philosophy of Shipwrecking Waves
Arsena A
2019-01-01
Abstract
Between the dialectical identity of identity with self and difference from self, and the ontological difference that refuses sublation, stands Agamben, on a certain limit between absolute knowledge and the unknowable negativity of its putative other. To know an entity, even the whole universe, thought must grasp both that entity and its beyond, perched precisely on the limit of knowability.The author describes this limit as the place where Agamben has chosen to set up his home. The limit of knowability is also the limit of communicability, and thus the philosopher’s territory is not simply language and the speakable but somewhere in between the speakable and the ineffable, the space of the potential to say, the pregnancy of the event of a language as yet merely prefigured on the lips.
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