Listening to the Unsaid: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Human Voice
Listening to the Unsaid: Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of the Human Voice
Author(s): Piotr SawczyńskiSubject(s): Metaphysics, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Giorgio Agamben; Walter Benjamin; Voice; Infancy;
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to critically analyze Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy of the human voice—his early contribution to the academic debate on speaking and listening. I reconstruct both Agamben’s critique of the traditional metaphysical approach to the human voice and his theory of infancy, conceived as an alternative mode of conceptualizing voice and aimed at reformulating speaking and listening as unifying experiences beyond particular languages and linguistic identities.
Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
- Issue Year: 64/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 57-67
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English