Posts Tagged ‘The Time That Remains’
Fifth day
My apologies for the delay in finishing off my series on Agamben’s Time That Remains. But the break was worth it to slow down and think about it a bit more. I’ll try and reduce the commentary and increase the questions now.
The fifth day focuses on the words Eis euaggelion theou, [...]
The Fourth Day
The fourth chapter is Agamben’s analysis of ‘messianic time’, which comes under his commentary on the word apostolos, the sixth word (it actually precedes aphorismenos from the third chapter) in the first verse of Romans. It is the longest and most involved chapter thus far, but I felt equally rewarding. [...]
I’m returning to the second day, as I did not finish summarising the chapter, and there were some particularly interesting parts that did not deserve to be reduced to a sentence or two.
I had reached the section concerning the “as if” (35). Agamben starts from Adorno’s ending to Minima Moralia, that the only responsible philosophy [...]
The Third Day
The third section focuses on aphōrismenos, being the past participle of the word meaning “separated”. Paul is “separated” or “set apart” in some translations. But, as Agamben immediately notes, how is being “separated” consistent with a gospel for everyone? If Paul proclaims the breaking down of division between Jew and Greek, (we note [...]
The Second Day
If the first chapter was devoted to some close readings of Paul’s letters, this second branches out into Paul’s letters, and their reading by Luther, Marx, Weber, Benjamin and more. This chapter is focused on the greek word kletos, from the verb kaleo, meaning “calling” (19). So, you recall, in the first verse [...]
I’m reading Giorgio Agamben’s The Time That Remains, his analysis of the first 10 words of Paul’s letter to the Romans. The book is divided into 6 ‘days’, and a seventh ‘threshold’, (Recall the 6 days of creation, and the seventh day of rest in the book of Genesis). I’m reading the book [...]
