What everyone looks and no one wants to see: the image of bare life
Keywords:
Agamben, Auschwitz, dignitas, image, prósopon.
Abstract
This paper examines the third volume of the “Homo sacer” series of Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz. The Witness and the Archive (1998). It shows that his controversial thesis on the paradox of the testimony of Auschwitz and the idea of an “unimaginable” involve a technical concept of image, specific of Agamben’s tought. It asserts that the paradoxical dialectic of visibility and invisibility of bare life’s Muslim described in this book is based on a critical reception of the greek prosopon, the iconography of the Gorgon and roman idea of dignitas. This paper, finally, shows the relevance of this critical reception in the border context of Agamben´s theory of image.Downloads
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Ruvituso M. (2017). What everyone looks and no one wants to see: the image of bare life. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 34(2), 495-512. https://doi.org/10.5209/ASHF.56113
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