Potentiality and its Discontents: Against Agamben’s Political Ontology
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on December 20, 2025
Abstract
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Agamben’s political philosophy claims to offer an ontological account of the problem of state violence and the ‘desubjectification’ involved in our idea of citizenship, which manifested itself in the emergency measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Agamben’s political philosophy claims to offer an ontological account of the problem of state violence and the ‘desubjectification’ involved in our idea of citizenship, which manifested itself in the emergency measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...