The Voice In Language And Death

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (1942-) is one of the most challenging contemporary master thinkers. His achievements in the linguistic philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics, poetics are high valued by contemporary scholars.Regarding to the "Voice", it is one of Agamben"s key concepts in early stage to redefine and criticize nihilism. Meanwhile, "Voice" as the foundation of unsayable is the primary target of book Language and Death:The Place of Negative published in 1982. The book mainly focus on the texts of Hegel and Heidegger associated with negative experience of language and Being. In this way. Agamben manages to verify negative essence in Western traditional thought. So far. we can tell that Being is unthinkable outside of language. Another thing is that language as such always remains ineffable or unsayable.To expose "Voice", there are at least three approaches in terms of linguistic philosophy, which refer to negative experience of language, the relationship between the deixis and pronouns and the negative structure of voice. Aim at not necessarily getting the idea from the aspect of "ineffable", or rather from the aspect of "mortal", Agamben works on exploring a possibility of "absolute speak" and an experience of "infancy".