Images of Kairos: temporality and politics

Abstract

This article analyzes some of the issues involved in contemporary revisitation of Giorgio Agamben make about the concepts of history and temporality of Walter Benjamin, basically in works like Infanzia e storia: destruzione dell’esperienza e origine della storia and Il tempo che resta: un comento alla Lettera ai Romani, raising from philosophical sources ranging from Hippocrates to cynicism a problematization around the relationship between kairological time and political action.