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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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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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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