Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life
by
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
Title
:
Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life
Author
:
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
ISBN
:
9780804732185
9780804732178
Personal Author
:
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
Uniform Title
:
Homo sacer. English
Publication Information
:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Physical Description
:
viii, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
:
Meridian
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Contents
:
Pt. 1. The Logic of Sovereignty. 1. The Paradox of Sovereignty. 2. 'Nomos Basileus'. 3. Potentiality and Law. 4. Form of Law -- Threshold -- Pt. 2. Homo Sacer. 1. Homo Sacer. 2. The Ambivalence of the Sacred. 3. Sacred Life. 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas'. 5. Sovereign Body and Sacred Body. 6. The Ban and the Wolf -- Threshold -- Pt. 3. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern. 1. The Politicization of Life. 2. Biopolitics and the Rights of Man. 3. Life That Does Not Deserve to Live. 4. 'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People'. 5. VP. 6. Politicizing Death. 7. The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern -- Threshold.
Subject Term
:
Human rights.
State, The.
Sovereignty.
Religion and politics.
Right to life.
Concentration camps.