Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life

Abstract

Introduction Part I. The Logic of Sovereignty: 1. The paradox of sovereignty 2. 'Nomos Basileus' 3. Potentiality and law 4. Form of law Threshold Part II. Homo Sacer: 1. Homo sacer 2. The ambivalence of the sacred 3. Sacred life 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' 5. Sovereign body and sacred body 6. The ban and the wolf Threshold Part III. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern: 1. The politicization of life 2. Biopolitics and the rights of man 3. Life that does not deserve to live 4. 'Politics, or giving form to the life of a people' 5. VP 6. Politicizing death 7. The camp as the 'Nomos' of the modern Threshold Bibliography Index of names.

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SovereigntyPower (physics)HistoryPhilosophyPolitical scienceLawPoliticsPhysics

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Year: 1999
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Volume: 36
Issue: 08
Pages: 36-4413
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                                    Giorgio Agamben
                                
                            (1999). 
                            Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life. 
                            Choice Reviews Online
                            , 36
                            (08)
                            , 36-4413.
                            https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.36-4413

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