Bartleby, or the Diseased Organism: Critical Notes on the Ontology and the Prospective of the Ethical Subject in Agamben’s Work

  • Luis Periáñez Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.63068
Keywords: dispositive, existential analytic, Bartleby, destituent power

Abstract

We analyse in this article the ontology and the prospective of the ethical subject in the work of Giorgio Agamben, focusing particularly on his conception of the human as a rest or constitutive caesura, and his appropriation of the figure of Bartleby the Scrivener as a paradigmatic figure of a possible ethics. Against the ethical subject thus delineated, which our analysis understands as a debtor of a non-foucaultian notion of dispositives, we offer a reading of authors such as José Luis Villacañas, Georges Canguilhem or Jean-Luc Nancy thinking about a biological body that cannot, or it must not be thought of as inoperative passivity.

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Luis Periáñez Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Graduado en filosofía por la UCM, Máster en Estudios Avanzados de Antropología social y cultural por la UCM, y actualmente doctorando del programa de filosofía de la UCM.

Periáñez Llorente, L. (2018): Si esto es un cuerpo: de la ontología política a una ética posible, en Revista Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 35 (2), 507-530

Periáñez Llorente, L. (2018), Bajo el velo de la "elección individual": efecto y justificación de las opresiones conjugadas sobre los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes en EEUU. Revista de Antropología Social. 27(1) 2018: 205-209

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Published
2020-03-17
How to Cite
Periáñez Llorente L. (2020). Bartleby, or the Diseased Organism: Critical Notes on the Ontology and the Prospective of the Ethical Subject in Agamben’s Work. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 23(1), 75-84. https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.63068
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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2020)
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