ABSTRACT
Agamben’s work deploys a complex philosophy of language colored by the work of Benjamin, Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This philosophy of language centers on the being-in-language-ofthe-non-linguistic, which Agamben terms the experimentum linguae,
an experience of humanity’s historical-epochal opening to language. From this linguistic basis Agamben’s work constructs an erudite meditation on ontology, ethics, politics, and representation.
