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Damiano Sacco
Highest Openness
On Agamben’s Promise
This essay follows the productive discussion of Giorgio Agamben’s The Open: Man and Animal that took place as part of the ‘Openness in Medieval Culture’ conference at the ICI Berlin. The essay attempts to develop a speculative notion of openness within Agamben’s work, in particular by connecting the question of openness to the question of the promise: the promise of the resolution of the question of man and animal (The Open); the promise of the Franciscans’ vow, or sacramentum (The Highest Poverty); and the promise of language (The Sacrament of Language).
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Highest Openness
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On Agamben’s Promise
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Damiano Sacco
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This essay follows the productive discussion of Giorgio Agamben’s The Open: Man and Animal that took place as part of the ‘Openness in Medieval Culture’ conference at the ICI Berlin. The essay attempts to develop a speculative notion of openness within Agamben’s work, in particular by connecting the question of openness to the question of the promise: the promise of the resolution of the question of man and animal (The Open); the promise of the Franciscans’ vow, or sacramentum (The Highest Poverty); and the promise of language (The Sacrament of Language).
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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April 19, 2022
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Giorgio Agamben
The Open
The Highest Poverty
The Sacrament of Language
promise
potentiality
language
Franciscans
eschatology
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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Highest Openness
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227
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248
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Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 227–48
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