Da Da ação e do uso do corpo:

algumas considerações sobre a leitura agambeniana da Política de Aristóteles

Abstract

Agamben goes to Aristotle to show how tradition has operated according to his conceptuality, establishing the primacy of action (praxis) as human activity in the political sphere. In the Agambenian perspective, such primacy is articulated to the aparratus of finality, which, according to him, opposes means and ends in an endless dialectic. In a different way, the Italian philosopher proposes that the notion of use is able to depose the dialectic of means and ends and, thus, move politics away from the way it was thought of by Aristotle. However, he accomplishes such a departure by dwelling on the way the ancient slave was characterized by the Aristotelian approach, as one who uses the body. Agamben seeks to think about and update the political meaning of the syntagma "use of the body" by approaching Aristotle, and then leaving him again.

KEYWORDS: action; use of the body; politics; Agamben; Aristotle.