Figuras del habla poética en el pensamiento contemporáneo

Abstract

In this article we shall reflect upon the question of what speech is (and its link with poetry) in contemporary thought, especially from some ideas of Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Pascal Quignard, Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, among others. At the end of Infancy and History, Agamben discusses two opposing worlds that are configured from the experience of speech (open mouth / closed mouth), a point from which we propose to consider some key figures: closed mouth speech in the apophatic (Derrida) and the unnameable (Badiou); and open mouth speech in glossolalia (Agamben) and adoration (Nancy)