神圣人（Homo Sacer）

简介

The first volume of a project Agamben pursued for two decades, up to The Use of Bodies (2014); it appeared in Italian in 1995. The title comes from archaic Roman law: the homo sacer was a person whom anyone could kill without committing murder, but who could not be sacrificed. Agamben takes him as the figure of “bare life” (nuda vita), which sovereign power includes by excluding it. Combining Carl Schmitt’s theory of sovereignty and the state of exception with Foucault’s biopolitics and with Arendt, he argues that the concentration camp, not the city, is the hidden paradigm of Western politics. The thesis has been widely debated, especially since the “war on terror” after 2001.

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承接了

• 政治学约公元前335年年 · 亚里士多德
• 政治神学1922 · 卡尔·施米特
• 人的境况1958 · 汉娜·阿伦特
• 求知的意志（性经验史，第一卷）1976 · 米歇尔·福柯

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• 死亡政治（Necropolitics）2003 · 阿希尔·姆本贝