In:
Philosophical Literary Journal Logos, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Vol. 29, No. 1 ( 2019), p. 133-146
Abstract:
The article presents edited material from a meeting with Giorgio Agamben to publicize the release of the Russian translation of his book The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Agamben discusses the reasons and conditions for the formation of power in the West as oikonomia; the early Christian origins of the modern domination of the economy and government in all spheres of public life; the certainty of modern power; together with what makes politics possible and the connection of politics with inactivity, dispositives and processes of deactivation. The archaeological study of the phenomenon of power suggests that its modern forms are notconfined exclusively to government, but power is also characterized by the concept of “glory” whose ceremonial, liturgical and praiseworthy aspects we have customarily viewed as rudiments of the past even though they still retain their influence. Power in the guise of government shifts the focus to action that reveals its own baselessness and radically reconfigures ideas about the relationship between economics and politics. In turn, the groundlessness of praxis requires conceptualizing will, understood as dispositive, which raises the issue of adequate strategies for constructing relations between the subject and the government as a condition for the very possibility of the political. Deactivation, profanation and inactivity are a prism through which the potential of the political, the poetic, the economic and the human is revealed.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2499-9628
,
0869-5377
DOI:
10.22394/0869-5377-2019-1
DOI:
10.22394/0869-5377-2019-1-133-145
Language:
Russian
Publisher:
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Publication Date:
2019
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2826495-2
SSG:
7,39
SSG:
5,1
