Pure and Impure in the Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2012 (160):139-164 (2012)
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Metaphysics, including the metaphysics of justice, is forgetting or blinding oneself to the violence of the pure. Arkady Plotnitsky: 1. Without a master, one cannot be cleaned. - Purification, whether by fire or by the word, by baptism or by death, requires submission to the law. Dominique Laporte: 2. Pure and Impure until Homo Sacer - The pure and impure have long been of interest to Giorgio Agamben. In his first text, The Man Without Content, Agamben writes of “pure culture” as an aesthetic relation to the world that idealizes the position of the disinterested spectator. 3. This culture…

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