Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Agamben, Giorgio
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- Title Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
- Author Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 1998-04-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002140341
- ISBN 9780804732185 / 0804732183
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 1610
- Library of Congress subjects Concentration camps, Religion and politics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036621
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.011
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From the rear cover
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.
