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Sovereign power and bare life / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
By: Agamben, Giorgio.
Material type:
TextSeries: Homo sacer 1.Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.Description: viii, 199 p. ill. 23 cm.ISBN: 0804732175; 0804732183.Subject(s): Human rights | Sovereignty | Religion and politics | Right to lifeDDC classification: 320.01
Contents:
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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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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