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Homo Sacer - Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Hardcover)
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Homo Sacer - Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and
original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in
classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of
late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy.
Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the
constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political
conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of
the individual within it.
In "Homo Sacer, " Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure
possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political
and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its
previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking
his cue from Foucault's fragmentary analysis of biopolitics,
Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the
covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the
history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the
earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle's
notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of
Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the
state), a notion of sovereignty as power over "life" is implicit.
The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to
Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes
indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl
Schmitt's idea of the sovereign's status as the exception to the
rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals
the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines
the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not
sacrificed--a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the
modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the
collective "naked life" of all individuals.
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