Giorgio Agamben and Simone Weil, critics of the roman legal tradition

We investigate an important reference of Giorgio Agamben, which up to now has had little weight in the interpretations that the secondary literature has made regarding his political-legal thinking. We argue that although he hardly ever refers to her explicitly, Simone Weil's writings are a constant companion of Agamben. We are particularly interested in Weil’s essay The Person and the Sacred, which Agamben has already dealt with in his laurea dissertation in law.

Keywords:
Person; Sacred; Law