Agamben, Giorgio

S134

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.

0804732175 :0804732183 :

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights.
Sovereignty.
Religion and politics.
Right to life.