Homo Sacer : Sovereign Power and Bare Life
ISBN: 9780804732185 | 0804732183
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 4/1/1998
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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, pote... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Logic of Sovereignty | p. 13 |
| The Paradox of Sovereignty | p. 15 |
| Nomos Basileus' | p. 30 |
| Potentiality and Law | p. 39 |
| Form of Law | p. 49 |
| ? Threshold | p. 63 |
| Homo Sacer | p. 69 |
| Homo Sacer | p. 71 |
| The Ambivalence of the Sacred | p. 75 |
| Sacred Life | p. 81 |
| 'Vita... MORE | p. 87 |
| Sovereign Body and Sacred Body | p. 91 |
| The Ban and the Wolf | p. 104 |
| ? Threshold | p. 112 |
| The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern | p. 117 |
| The Politicization of Life | p. 119 |
| Biopolitics and the Rights of Man | p. 126 |
| Life That Does Not Deserve to Live | p. 136 |
| 'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People' | p. 144 |
| VP | p. 154 |
| Politicizing Death | p. 160 |
| The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern | p. 166 |
| ? Threshold | p. 181 |
| Bibliography | p. 189 |
| Index of Names | p. 197 |
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Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Verona.
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