GIORGIO AGAMBEN - Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy

PART I: LANGUAGE
§ 1 The Thing Itself

§ 2 The Idea of Language

§ 3 Language and History: Linguistic and Historical Categories in Benjamin's Thought

§ 4 Philosophy and Linguistics

§ 5 Kommerell, or On Gesture


PART II: HISTORY
§ 6 Aby Warburg and the Nameless Science

§ 7 Tradition of the Immemorial

§ 8 *Se: Hegel's Absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis

§ 9 Walter Benjamin and the Demonic: Happiness and Historical Redemption

§ 10 The Messiah and the Sovereign: The Problem of Law in Walter Benjamin


PART III: POTENTIALITY
§ 11 On Potentiality

§ 12 The Passion of Facticity

§ 13 Pardes: The Writing of Potentiality

§ 14 Absolute Immanence


PART IV: CONTINGENCY
§ 15 Bartleby, or On Contingency