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More Agamben Notes: Il sacramento del linguaggio, §§1-6
Last summer I produced a series of reading notes over Agamben’s Il Regno e la Gloria, a text that is still unavailable in English as of this writing. Since then, a follow-up volume has come to my...
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More Agamben Notes: Il sacramento del linguaggio, §§7-12
§7. Agamben refers back to the section of Homo Sacer I mentioned last time, where he critiques theoreticians of religion, and he continues that critique here, characterizing the notion of the “sacred”...
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More Agamben Notes: Il sacramento del linguaggio, §§13-21
§13. Agamben now turns to another institution closely tied to the oath: sacratio (also called a devotio), by which a person is declared sacer. This act consecrates a person to the gods and separates...
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More Agamben Notes: Il sacramento del linguaggio, §§22-29
§22. This section discusses so-called “ontological arguments” for the existence of God. Agamben claims that what’s really at stake in Anselm’s argument is that id quo maius cogitari non potest is the...
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Compilation of notes over Il sacramento del linguaggio
Please enjoy the PDF compilation of my notes over this book, complete with a bonus spellcheck. There were not many comments to the posts this time around, but those who want to look at the original...
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