On the Technical and Political Status of the Work of Art in Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26439/en.lineas.generales2021.n5.5420Keywords:
work of art, power, politics, production, actionAbstract
After reviewing the meaning of concepts such as poiesis and praxis, we examined the Arendtian distinction
between labor, work, and action, which rekindles the Greek heritage and places within it Arendt’s reflection
on the work of art. Next, we develop the intuitions of a young Agamben, who, in an essay published in his first book, arguea that it is the concept of poiesis that, in the course of modernity, would have been obfuscated by praxis. Finally, we try to complement the perspectives of both philosophers questioning the political status of
art and its technical dimension.
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