Philosophy for Militants

To "the end times" of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and "messianic time"—to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die—from Plato to Montaigne and beyond—one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who "thinks of death least of all things"—"for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away," as Benjamin writes—and so in whose pages "wisdom," transfigured, "is a meditation on life."
[2017]

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