Patrick Boucheron, The Archaeologist and the Historian: Dialogue with Giorgio Agamben, Translated by Matthew Collins, Journal of Italian Philosophy, Volume 8 (2025), 117 – 123
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Original text: Boucheron, P. (2017/1–2), ‘L’archéologue et l’historien. Dialogue avec Giorgio Agamben’, Critique, 836–37, pp. 164–71. Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/criti.836.0164 (accessed 13th August 2024). This conversation between Patrick Boucheron and Giorgio Agamben took place in French.
Preface
The œuvres of Giorgio Agamben and Patrick Boucheron have unfolded at quite a distance from one another. What do the Italian philosopher and French historian have in common? Perhaps precisely what seems to separate them: the language [langue] and languages [langues], French and Italian, that they share. Not only this, but also the field of mediaeval and Renaissance Italy, which both prefer to survey, although not exclusively. Of particular note is the importance that they accord to writing and to the diversity of its regimes in the exercise of thought. There is also a conviction shared by both which encapsulates the Foucauldian term ‘archaeology’, according to which it is necessary to interrogate the traditions of history if one wishes to forge concepts to parse the present. Archaeology, for Agamben and Boucheron, is inseparable from political concerns […]
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