This article reviews some elements of what may be called a “topology of language” in the philosophy of Agamben. Having this in mind, the analysis will proceed in two ways. First, it is argued the importance of the meditation on languaje in the project Homo Sacer, where the problem of the inclusive-exclusion of bare life through the law coincides with the structure of presupposition within language and with what in “The use of Bodies” the italian philosopher will call the “ontological device”. On the other hand, there will be explored some of the elementes by the means of wich Agamben tries to describe a different experience of language, able to go beyond the structure of presupposition and thus beyond guilt and law. In both cases, the influence of Benjamin´s thought turns out to be fundamental, and it may be argued that an important part of Agamben´s investigations can be characterized as an attempt to unfold the “development capacity” contained in the german-jew thinker’s work.
Fuentes Dettoni, A. (2020). The “non-hypothetical darkness”. Elements for a topology of languaje in Agamben and Benjamin. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (8), 29–42. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2020.58199
