Identity As Not–(Im)Possibilities of an Interreligious Dialogue From the Fringes: Exploring Giorgio Agamben and the Interreligious Dialogue

Abstract

The present essay explores if and how selected political concepts developed by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben can be applied
UP EJGmDVMUJFT GSFRVFOUMZ NFU JO JOUFSSFMJHJPVT FODPVOUFST 6TJOH Agambian concepts such as ‘Homo Sacer’ and ‘The Cut of Apelles’, this paper discusses problems of representation, identity and inclusion/exclusion, which are structurally inherent in interreligious dialogues. The essay concludes sketching the potential of Agamben’s category of ‘messianic-suspended identity’ in connection with a method of radical historization for the interreligious dialogue.