Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben

Published by Stanford University Press 1998

Homo Sacer

Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben
Translated by: Daniel Heller-Roazen

In the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804764025

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About this book

One of Italy's most original philosophers 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.

Author / Editor information

Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Venice.

Reviews

Modernism/Modernity:
"The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations."

The Review of Politics:
"Agamben's intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. The Logic of Sovereignty
1. The Paradox of Sovereignty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. 'Nomos Basileus' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Potentiality and Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. Form of Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Threshold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part Two. Homo Sacer
1. Homo Sacer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
2. The Ambivalence of the Sacred Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
3. Sacred Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. Sovereign Body and Sacred Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. The Ban and the Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Threshold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Part Three. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern
1. The Politicization of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
2. Biopolitics and the Right of Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
3. Life That Does Not Deserve to Live Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
4. 'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
5. VP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
6. Politicizing Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
7. The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Threshold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 228

eBook

Published: April 1, 1998
ISBN: 9780804764025