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