First Philosophy Last Philosophy
Agamben, Giorgio (Universita IUAV di Venezia) / Hanafi, Zakiya
What is at stake in that form of inquiry which the Western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics? Is this an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest ‿ namely, the unity of Western knowledge? In fact, metaphysics is ‿first‿ only in relation to the other two sciences that Aristotle called theoretical: physics and mathematics. It is the strategic sense ...
