Il tempo che resta: paradigma d'attualità

Abstract

As is well known, Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Saint Paul’s Letter to Romans in The Time that remains is focused on the irruption of a messianic temporality in the secular time. Through the identification of this experience with a «time contraction», the final time, namely the time of the «now» is unavoidably connected with all variety of mundanity. From this perspective, in this paper I intend to shed light over some of the most complex arguments developed in The Time that remains by a comparison with the authors to whom Agamben implicitly refers to. Following Agamben’s analysis, I argue that his narrative inspection of the Pauline notion of time is based upon the assumption of time as a metaphor of every lived-experience and the claim that the «time of the end» as an existential paradigm constitutes an important legacy for the actuality.