Agamben’s Temporal Thought and the Coming Community

Abstract

Although the idea of the coming community has attracted significant scholarly attention, the temporal thought within the context of Agamben’s theory, and its relationship to his political thinking, has remained relatively underexplored. By reconstructing Agamben’s temporal thought – through the triadic structure of creation time, remaining time, and presence time – this article demonstrates that Agamben’s contribution advances temporal critiques while addressing the critical question of what lies beyond critique: the transformation of our perception and experience of time itself. More importantly, this reconstruction of Agamben’s temporal thought opens new possibilities for a more practically engaged understanding of the coming community and offers intellectual resources for reimagining and practicing a new ethical-political life in our time.