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A Sacrament of Intellectual Self-Gratification: Giorgio Agamben swearing an Oath of his own State of Exception

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Agamben claimed that the experience of language, as it is manifested in the oath, precedes and gives rise to religion, law and politics, and therefore should be seen as a crucial element of the human process. It is my intention to argue here that a particular aspect of Agamben's own language suffers from substantial and conceptual flaws and self-assertive opinions on language and oath. They may put in question his own engagement with the textual evidence and philosophical literature, which makes his own text self-recommending and self-gratifying. In addition, he relied on obscure authors and obsolete interpretations and he failed to engage the relevant issues in the relevant literature that are crucial to his argument. More importantly, Agamben's argument on a certain impotence of language offers little suggestion, except calling upon philosophical obfuscation, to break down the state of exception in the current post-modern condition and avoid the technical apparatuses of the sacrament of power that led first to oath, and then to religion, law and politics.

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Cite 10.7910/DVN/TMR7OR Jeu de données DOJA, A. (2022). Concordance table of quotations for: A sacrament of intellectual self-gratification: Giorgio Agamben swearing an oath of his own state of exception (Version 4.0) [Data set]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TMR7OR

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halshs-03986955 , version 1 (23-03-2023)

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Albert Doja. A Sacrament of Intellectual Self-Gratification: Giorgio Agamben swearing an Oath of his own State of Exception. Critical Survey, 2023, 35 (1), pp.19-43. ⟨10.3167/cs.2023.350102⟩. ⟨halshs-03986955⟩
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