Life, Law, and Abandonment in Giorgio Agamben

The present article deals with the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and explores his seminal concepts like ‘homo sacer’ and ‘state of exception’ to examine the relationship between law and human life and probes into the philosopher’s thoughts on the function of the biopolitical machine in the...

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Main Author:	Manas Ray
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Ratnabali Publisher 2014-07-01
Series:	Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
Online Access:	http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/12

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spelling	doaj-70cf59e9aa69417bbcc3f9bf0dbf6f302020-11-24T22:01:41ZengRatnabali PublisherSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry2349-80642014-07-011112Life, Law, and Abandonment in Giorgio AgambenManas Ray0Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, CalcuttaThe present article deals with the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and explores his seminal concepts like ‘homo sacer’ and ‘state of exception’ to examine the relationship between law and human life and probes into the philosopher’s thoughts on the function of the biopolitical machine in the modern state to allocate the positions of terror vis-a-vis legality and the function of sovereignty. Working through Agamben’s body of thought and relating it to a host of other political thinkers like Schmitt and Mbembe for example, it sketches out the fundamental definition of politics and what it means to be in relation to that in our modern times. Keywords: Exception, Law, Modernity, Holocaust, Testimony, Agamben.http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/12
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description	The present article deals with the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and explores his seminal concepts like ‘homo sacer’ and ‘state of exception’ to examine the relationship between law and human life and probes into the philosopher’s thoughts on the function of the biopolitical machine in the modern state to allocate the positions of terror vis-a-vis legality and the function of sovereignty. Working through Agamben’s body of thought and relating it to a host of other political thinkers like Schmitt and Mbembe for example, it sketches out the fundamental definition of politics and what it means to be in relation to that in our modern times. Keywords: Exception, Law, Modernity, Holocaust, Testimony, Agamben.
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Life, Law, and Abandonment in Giorgio Agamben

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