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Siate inoperosi: поэтика бездействия Джорджо Агамбена
The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of “inactivity” (inoperasità), which occupies a central place in the philosophical constructions of the modern Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben. The aim of the work is to trace how the Agamben’s project, aimed at overcoming the modern European aesthetics and searching for the primary structure of an artwork, turned into a grandiose poetics and philosophy of inoperativity, covering a wide range of ontological, aesthetic, anthropological and theological issues. Among the main objectives of the research is to identify the relationship between such main Agamben’s concepts as a man without content, means without end, homo sacer, any being, coming community, messianic time, etc. The article shows that all these concepts are built around one of the pivotal anthropological ideas, namely, the idea of man as a contemplative animal and being devoid of a cause, whose principled openness and pure potentiality, paraded in inoperativity, idleness and weakness, has constitutive value for any human activities and work. The research also notes that the main tenets of the poetics of inoperativity and argumentation in its defense are constructed by Agamben from heterogeneous historical and philosophical elements skillfully woven into a single conceptual network. The Italian philosopher reinforces his position on human abilities with the teachings of Aristotle on potency and act, appealing to his physics, metaphysics and ethics, and some sentences from Spinoza’s “Ethics” are masterfully interpreted by him as apology of blissful and ambrosialinoperativity. Meanwhile, Agamben’s pedigree of his anthropological concept elevates to Heidegger’s lecture course at the end of the 1920s, where the concept of “deep boredom” is elaborated. Also speaking of the coming messianic time and identifying him with the “Sabbath of human”, Agamben unites the late Benjamin’s eschatological visions with the Apostle Paul’s teachings on the abolition and fulfillment of the Law. This article is based on the assumption that all this diversity of concepts is actualized by the Italian thinker for the realization of his long-standing project of deactivating aesthetics and returning the being of a human to his original poetical status on earth.