Agamben, the Thought of Sterēsis: An Introduction to Two Essays
Agamben, the Thought of Sterēsis: An Introduction to Two Essays
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阿甘本，斯特莱西斯的思想：两篇论文简介
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K. Seshadri
目前翻译的Giorgio Agamben的文章“La波滕扎del pensiero”是基于丹尼尔Heller-Roazen在1999年编辑的文集《潜能：哲学论文集》中翻译的文章“论潜能”的扩展版本。早期的翻译是基于阿甘本1987年在里斯本发表的一次演讲的笔记。本文本是根据发表在Agamben于2007年编辑的La波滕扎del pensiero：Saggi e conferenze文集中的文章编写的，其中包括其他迄今未翻译的作品，包括“Vocazione e Voce”（“职业和声音”）。在这篇关于波滕扎概念的主要文章中，阿甘本回到了亚里士多德对存在的本体论质疑，认为存在必须在phusis（自然）和kinesis（运动）的视野中进行，并试图通过对波滕扎作为“能够的力量”的非常具体的理解--“一个人能够”的含义--对生命概念做出重大贡献。然而，重要的是要认识到，这篇文章不仅仅是一个学术或语言学注释。阿甘本的解释构成了他整个哲学体系的宣言，为了在其创造性的特殊性中获得适当的访问，有必要将其置于其哲学背景中，从而注意到阿甘本贡献的独特性，即他对亚里士多德形而上学的干预，由马丁海德格尔介导。
The present translation of Giorgio Agamben’s essay “La Potenza del pensiero” is based on an expanded version of the essay “On Potentiality” translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen in the collection edited by him in 1999, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy. The earlier translation was based on notes that Agamben made for a talk he delivered in Lisbon, 1987. The present text is based on the essay published in the collection La potenza del pensiero: Saggi e conferenze edited by Agamben in 2007, which includes other hitherto untranslated pieces including “Vocazione e Voce” (“Vocation and Voice”). In this lead essay on the concept of potenza, Agamben returns to Aristotle’s ontological questioning of being as that which must be undertaken within the horizon of phusis (nature) and kin esis (movement) and seeks to make a major contribution to the concept of life in terms of a very specific understanding of potenza as “the power to be able”—what it means to say that “one can.” However, it is important to recognize that this essay is not merely a scholarly or philological exegesis. Agamben’s interpretation constitutes something like a manifesto for his entire philosophical system, and in order to gain proper access to this piece in its creative specificity it is necessary to set it in its philosophical context and thereby note the singularity of Agamben’s contribution, namely, his intervention into Aristotle’s metaphysics as mediated by Martin Heidegger.