Pensare la vita come ciò di cui non si dà mai proprietà

Agamben and the private property

Abstract

We return in the text that follows to Altissima povertà: regole monastiche e forma di vita by Giorgio Agamben to ask ourselves if the Italian philosopher was writing against private property, if his book can be read as a manifesto against the right to property. Unlike other themes that are frequently repeated during the course of the Roman philosopher's work, this one hardly appears and has a well-placed position. Would his articulate arguments in favor of a life outside the law be a direct or indirect affront to the private and exclusive use of the goods that are available to humanity? It is very likely that the shards of messianic time to which Walter Benjamin refers, fragments that indicate the directions of the narrow doors through which the messianic salvation that dispenses the future and the messiah can pass, reach the right of property. Are the resources to be applied against a supposedly unprofanable reality at our disposal, at least at the disposal of the critical philosophy that still comes or of the radical philosophy that is already in a state of latency?