Escribir, lo común. Ideas, figuras e imágenes en torno a una lectura de Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

This paper aims to explore, over the work of Giorgio Agamben, some of the problematic fields opened by the questioning of the relationship between writing and community. To do so, we have circumscribed our work to the reading of the books where the italian philosopher’s reflection on community is inseparable from the questioning of language itself. Starting with the author's specific book to think the way he finds to write his proposal of community, The Coming Community (1990), we will displace the inquiry to other texts, less read by the criticism to address this problematic, with special reference to Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture (1977), Idea of prose (1985), Infancy and History (1978), Means without End (1996) and Profanations (2005). We think the "idea", the "image", the “figure” and the "example" as unique ways found by Agamben’s writing to point out an experience with the communicability that makes possible the thought of the community.