University of Isfahan Metaphysics 2476-3276 13 31 2021 03 21 Agamben and Destruction of the Aesthetics in the Man without Content Agamben and Destruction of the Aesthetics in the Man without Content 99 118 25952 10.22108/mph.2021.128017.1283 FA Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Wisdom and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University Tehran, Iran Abbas Jamali M.A. in Western Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Wisdom and Logic, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2021 04 17 Abstarct The main concern of Agamben in The Man without Content is the problem of art as a result of and even the foundation of contemporary nihilism. He believes that art since it has begun to be treated as a subject of aesthetics and taste has lost its fundamental functions and powers in opening the human world and revealing the truth. Drawing on Heidegger, Benjamin, and Baudelaire, this article attempts to analyze and interpret the thoughts of Giorgio Agamben about the destruction of aesthetics, what he means by that and how he proceeds. Following Heidegger, Agamben intends to destroy aesthetics in search of rediscovering and reviving the origins (archai) that are hidden and forgotten in the ruins of the tradition. Based on the concept of poiesis as the essential feature of art, in contrast to praxis as the only action of man in modernity, he tries to diagnose the contemporary condition of art. In the search of original structure or the essence of art as poetic action of human beings, Agamben believes that the role of art in our contemporary situation is to fill the gap between the past and the present because in our nihilistic situation tradition cannot transfer its meaning and truth to us, so we encounter it just as a cultural heritage. Abstarct The main concern of Agamben in The Man without Content is the problem of art as a result of and even the foundation of contemporary nihilism. He believes that art since it has begun to be treated as a subject of aesthetics and taste has lost its fundamental functions and powers in opening the human world and revealing the truth. Drawing on Heidegger, Benjamin, and Baudelaire, this article attempts to analyze and interpret the thoughts of Giorgio Agamben about the destruction of aesthetics, what he means by that and how he proceeds. Following Heidegger, Agamben intends to destroy aesthetics in search of rediscovering and reviving the origins (archai) that are hidden and forgotten in the ruins of the tradition. Based on the concept of poiesis as the essential feature of art, in contrast to praxis as the only action of man in modernity, he tries to diagnose the contemporary condition of art. In the search of original structure or the essence of art as poetic action of human beings, Agamben believes that the role of art in our contemporary situation is to fill the gap between the past and the present because in our nihilistic situation tradition cannot transfer its meaning and truth to us, so we encounter it just as a cultural heritage.

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