Джорджо Агамбен и философията на езика
Giorgio Agamben and the Philosophy of Language

Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on the philosophy of language of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and compares it with another trend in the theory of language, where a Bulgarian case of original theory is also examined. Agamben tries to create a modal ontology, in which ethics and ontology would be different and interchangeable modes of speech. He builds on the scholastic concept of mode and develops the modes of speech as an alternative to the linguistic modalities. On the other hand, the text views the French linguist Gustave Guillaume who works extensively with modalities and infers the philosophical concepts from the linguistic ones. Guillaume starts from a primal state where subject and object are undifferentiated in language and subsequently draws an operative field from the differentiation between the two. This is the path to the linguistic creation of time, the chronogenesis, and to the modalities. The Bulgarian guillaumist Krassimir Manchev works in this field. Yet the main purpose of the text is the juxtaposition of the philosophy of Agamben with the contemporary Bulgarian followers of the French theory of modalities, namely with the attempt of Darin Tenev to propose a modal theory that is appropriate for both philosophy and socioanalysis. The slightly elitist modal ontology of Agamben or the linguistic and sociological theories of modalities – this is the question of the article.

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