Giorgio Agamben’s Genealogy of Office

Ian Hunter

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Abstract

This paper offers a historical redescription of the genealogy of office presented in Giorgio Agamben’s Opus Dei: An archaeology of duty. Agamben’s treatment of the Christian liturgy as the source of the modern concept of office is described as a Heideggerian allegory grounded in a metaphysical history of being.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
Volume4
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)166-199
Number of pages34
ISSN2325-4823
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Agamben
  • Office
  • Pufendorf
  • Kant
  • Heidegger
  • Liturgy
  • Ethics
  • Duty

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