I'm continuing to work my way through Adam Thurschwell's very dense 'Spectres of Nietzsche: Potential Futures for the Concept of the Political in Agamben and Derrida'. I've skipped the political/legal philosophy of Jacques Derrida in favour of Giorgio Agamben.
The reason for my attraction is his understanding of ethics: it is an understanding of ethics ethos, connected to one's life as potentiality, to a human abode and to the happy life, which is developed in the book Language and Death.
Ethos is the habitual dwelling place of human beings and it is the mode in which we are most at home. Ethos as a habitual dwelling place is a very Heideggerian understanding of ethics.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 16, 2005 07:08 PM | TrackBack