This paper addresses the strategy by which Giorgio Agamben interprets the Aristotelian texts about the potentiality-actuality ontology. In Agamben’s critique, the Aristotelian ontology is responsible for having prioritized the actuality over potentiality and established the concept of hexis for explaining the passage between them. The traditional interpretation of these texts, then, has attributed an ethical meaning to such a polarity, ultimately leaving in shadow the dimension of potentiality as such, the meaning of which is not related to the immediate passage into the actuality. This also introduces a violent movement into ethics and politics, in order to overcome which, it is necessary to go back to the horizon of potentiality as such, that is, inoperativity.

(2020). Per poter non passare all'atto. Sull'interpretazione strategica dell'ontologia aristotelica offerta da Giorgio Agamben [journal article - articolo]. In LO SGUARDO. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/286174

Per poter non passare all'atto. Sull'interpretazione strategica dell'ontologia aristotelica offerta da Giorgio Agamben

Crosato, Carlo
2020-01-01

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This paper addresses the strategy by which Giorgio Agamben interprets the Aristotelian texts about the potentiality-actuality ontology. In Agamben’s critique, the Aristotelian ontology is responsible for having prioritized the actuality over potentiality and established the concept of hexis for explaining the passage between them. The traditional interpretation of these texts, then, has attributed an ethical meaning to such a polarity, ultimately leaving in shadow the dimension of potentiality as such, the meaning of which is not related to the immediate passage into the actuality. This also introduces a violent movement into ethics and politics, in order to overcome which, it is necessary to go back to the horizon of potentiality as such, that is, inoperativity.
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Crosato, Carlo
(2020). Per poter non passare all'atto. Sull'interpretazione strategica dell'ontologia aristotelica offerta da Giorgio Agamben [journal article - articolo]. In LO SGUARDO. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/286174
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