The Time that Remains - Giorgio Agamben

Written By Greg Laugero

Probably the most challenging and rewarding book I’ve read in the last two years.

Essays and Meditations influenced by Agamben

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The Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul - Stanislas Breton
The Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul - Stanislas Breton

Breton set in motion the philosophical and theological reconsideration of Paul (which was already underway in more scholarly investigations into ‘the historical Paul’). This book is crucial to the reconsideration of Paul that found in his letters the power to suspend the weight of culture to find ‘new horizons’ of salvational experience.

Mark 3:31-35: Who Is, Here Is
Mark 3:31-35: Who Is, Here Is

This essay reads Mark 3:31–35 as a decisive reconfiguration of belonging. Kinship is no longer anchored in blood, tradition, or continuity, but in presence and action—who is here, and what is done. Time is no longer something one inherits; it is something one inhabits. Ethical identity emerges not from origin, but from participation in a living moment.

Paul in Athens
Paul in Athens
Civitas Peregrina and Affirmation
Civitas Peregrina and Affirmation
Mercy without Recognition
Mercy without Recognition

Mercy is often framed as an extension of recognition: seeing oneself in the other. This essay pushes in the opposite direction. It explores mercy as an act that does not rely on identification or reciprocity, but on attentiveness to the moment at hand. Mercy here is not sentiment but temporal discipline—an ethical response that resists calculation, delay, and justification.

Luke 9:57-62: Roads, Renunciation and Following
Luke 9:57-62: Roads, Renunciation and Following
Jesus and Pilate - Giorgio Agamben
Jesus and Pilate - Giorgio Agamben

The trial of Jesus was not a trial but a “handing over” as a form of giving up in the face of the “crossing of the temporal and the eternal that assumed the form of a trial.”

The Nature of Sin
The Nature of Sin
The Highest Poverty - Giorgio Agamben
The Highest Poverty - Giorgio Agamben

The monastery perfected the structuring life through the rigorous measurement of time. This went well beyond simply organizing the day. How the monks spent their time became integral to their salvation, and a template for others.

Religion, Philosophy, Time
Religion, Philosophy, Time
Messianic Duration
Messianic Duration
Tone as a Practice of Time
Tone as a Practice of Time
Hamlet’s Ressentiment
Hamlet’s Ressentiment
The Time that Remains - Giorgio Agamben
The Time that Remains - Giorgio Agamben

A reading of St. Paul that will change the way you see him. Also a great way to understand Walter Benjamin’s w e a k messianic power.

Greg Laugero
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