Abstract
The philosophy of Plotinus plays a contradictory role in Giorgio Agamben’s corpus. He comments on Plotinus in a lapidary fashion in several articles and essays before commencing the Homo Sacer series, where he undertakes a longer and more ambiguous analysis of Plotinus in Opus Dei and The Use of Bodies. In Opus Dei, Agamben develops the brief criticism of Plotinus he proposed in The Kingdom and theGlory in order to describe the crucial instance when Western metaphysics starts to designate being as operativity: ‘The place and moment when classical ontology begins that process of transformation that will lead to the Christian and modern ontology is the theory of the hypostases in Plotinus’ (OD 58). Agamben is referring to the development in the Enneads of the idea of the three hypostases of being – the One, the Soul and the Intellect – from which the whole complex of reality emanates.
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