Sovereign power and bare life
/ Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
. — Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998..
viii, 199 p. ill. 23 cm.
— ( Homo sacer ; 1 )( Meridian ).
The paradox of sovereignty -- 'Nomos basileus' -- Potentiality and law -- Form of law -- Homo Sacer -- The ambivalence of the sacred -- Sacred life -- 'Vitae necisque potestas' -- Sovereign body and sacred body -- The ban and the wolf -- 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' -- VP -- Politicizing death -- The camp as the 'nomos' of the modern.
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Human rights. Sovereignty. Religion and politics. Right to life.
