Vidas desnuda(da)sLa necesidad de una “precaución etnográfica” como complemento a la “precaución arqueológica” en el análisis de los dispositivos del poder político en Occidente de Giorgio Agamben
ISSN: 2011-7477, 1692-8857
Year of publication: 2020
Issue: 33
Pages: 263-293
Type: Article
More publications in: Eidos: Revista de Filosofía
Abstract
Starting from the exposition provided by Giorgio Agamben himself of his theoretical and practical intentions at the beginning of Homo sacer I and from the method with which he intends to face them (his particular understanding of philosophical archeology), this essay shows, through a detailed analysis of that method, some of the limits of the project. This negative critical task is complemented by 1) a defense of some of Agamben’s theoretical gestures against a certain reception of his ideas about “bare life”, and 2) the methodological proposal of an “ethnographic precaution” that would permit to sanitize the project and to overcome the discovered limits. Such questions would be embedded in an inquiry about interdisciplinarity and the canon and essence of critical philosophy.