{"title":"Agamben's Happy Life: Toward an Ethics of Impotence and Mere Communicability","authors":"Simon Marijsse","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Focusing on Giorgio Agamben's reflections on language and potentiality, this essay examines how a different kind of happiness can enable ethics to venture above the figure of the law, that is, to become an ethics for which living itself is at stake.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"51 1","pages":"139 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0009","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Focusing on Giorgio Agamben's reflections on language and potentiality, this essay examines how a different kind of happiness can enable ethics to venture above the figure of the law, that is, to become an ethics for which living itself is at stake.