Homo Sacer Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Name: Homo Sacer Sovereign Power and Bare Life
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ISBN: 9780804732185

ISBN-10: 0804732183

ISBN-13: 9780804732185

Edition: 1998

Authors: Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen

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This translation of Homo Sacer makes available to English speakers the author's recent thinking on some concrete, ethical and political conclusions concerning modern society and the place of the individual within it.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for hisï¿½Homo Sacerï¿½series.ï¿½He recently retired from theï¿½Universitï¿½ Iuav di Venezia.



Introduction



The Logic of Sovereignty



The Paradox of Sovereignty



Nomos Basileus'



Potentiality and Law



Form of Law


? Threshold



Homo Sacer



Homo Sacer



The Ambivalence of the Sacred



Sacred Life



'Vitae Necisque Potestas'



Sovereign Body and Sacred Body



The Ban and the Wolf


? Threshold



The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern



The Politicization of Life



Biopolitics and the Rights of Man



Life That Does Not Deserve to Live



'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People'



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Politicizing Death



The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern


? Threshold


Bibliography


Index of Names