Agnoia. On non-knowledge and neither animal nor human life in Furio Jesi and Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

In the following article it is proposed a reading of Giorgio Agamben’s L’aperto: l’uomo e l’animale highlighting ideas that have been left behind: how L’aperto it is related to Agamben’s work, the singular theorization of an antispecist messianism based on a life neither human nor animal and it’s contribution to critical animal studies, but chiefly it is about reading details, like Aby Warburg taught, the good God hides in the detail. The detail that has been left behind it’s the final epigraph by Furio Jesi: «Esoterism means: articulations of non-knowledge’s modes». In the article it is exposed Rainer Maria Rilke’s esoterism following Furio Jesi, and how it is crucial in order to think in agambenian philosophy a way of exit to the anthropological machine.