Prem Kumar Rajaram, Carl Grundy‐Warr,
... Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's concept of homo sacer. Homo sacer is a term Agamben extrapolates from “ancient Roman ... a naked or bare life that is depoliticized. Homo sacer is the excess of processes of political constitution that create a governable form of life. Homo sacer is thus exempt or excluded from the normal ... of the state. At the same time, however, homo sacer is not simply cast out but is held ...
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2004 - Wiley | International Migration
... 4. Form of law Threshold Part II. Homo Sacer: 1. Homo sacer 2. The ambivalence of the sacred 3. Sacred ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
1999 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law Peter Fitzpatrick (bio) 'There is no end, there is no possibility of being ... 8).[2] This is the enigmatic figure of 'homo sacer (sacred man)', a figure which for Agamben embodies ' ... 8). What is 'bare' about the life of homo sacer is that it can be taken by anyone, ... displaces the legal order. Hence, this 'life of homo sacer... whose essential function in modern politics we intend ... Perhaps, then, the remarkable impact of a resurrected homo sacer has to do with this discovery of a ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
2001 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Theory & Event
... notoriety—through his study of the sacred in Homo Sacer. This recognition and notoriety grew with the subsequent ... in this still ongoing series, Remnants of Auschwitz (Homo Sacer III), State of Exception (Homo Sacer II.1), and The Kingdom and the Glory (Homo Sacer II.2). Agamben's recent work, Profanations, is, ... and “the order of the profane.” In his Homo Sacer project, this idea of the profane has followed ... and his political project. The works in the Homo Sacer series have compellingly and persuasively argued that the ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2008 - Duke University Press | boundary 2
... early essays guides his later work on the homo sacer-sovereign relation but also distorts and disturbs the ... exclusively juridicopolitical understanding of the sacredness of the homo sacer, effectively scapegoating the juridical sphere for a more ... sacrificial dimension for both what he calls the homo sacer and his own approach to law in his theorization of the homo sacer.. Second, Agamben's philosophical program impoverishes the account ... camps as an extreme example of the sovereign-homo sacer relation by making it impossible for him to ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2007 - Johns Hopkins University Press | diacritics
... January 17, 2004, sec. B. 3. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller- ... Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), 241. 9. Agamben, Homo Sacer, 21. 10. I thank Babak Bakhtiarynia for this ... Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005); and my ... Life," Polygraph 18 (2006): 191–215. 12. Agamben, Homo Sacer, 2. 13. Aristotle, Aristotle's Politics, trans. W. ...
Tópico(s): Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
2008 - Routledge | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
... and ethics after World War II.2 In Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Agamben designates the ... inhabitant,” he urges in the final passages of Homo Sacer. “Primo Levi has described the person who in ... and distinctions invite careful historical reflection, neither in Homo Sacer nor in his subsequent Remnants of Auschwitz: The ... with this silence. Indeed, it appears that the Homo Sacer project relies on Agamben’s not investigating this ...
Tópico(s): Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
2014 - Johns Hopkins University Press | New Literary History
Willem Schinkel, Marguerite van den Berg,
... Exception: The Dutch Revanchist City and the Urban Homo Sacer Willem Schinkel, Willem Schinkel Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, ... onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Abstract: Agamben's figure of the homo sacer is much discussed and applied in various social ... Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press Agamben G (1998) Homo Sacer. Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford : Stanford University ...
Tópico(s): Political Theology and Sovereignty
2011 - Wiley | Antipode
In his 1 998 book Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Italian original in 1995), Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben draws attention of his readers to an enigmatic ... HS 82-83). In this light, Agamben proposes, homo sacer presents originary figure of life taken into sovereign ... this figure is motivated by larger frame of Homo Sacer-book, namely, his attempt to expose violent character ... I reject legitimacy of overall aim of his Homo Sacer-project (i.e., unmasking violence of sovereignty), but ... French- American literary critic Rene Girard.2 Introducing Homo Sacer The sacred man is one whom people have ...
Tópico(s): War, Ethics, and Justification
2012 - DePaul University | Philosophy Today
This article argues that the indefinite detention and torture of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and the intentional destabilization of Palestinian civilian life in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories are indicative of the emergence of a new postmodern form of power. Coining the term homo dolorosus – the man who is available to be made to suffer – this article seeks to understand this emergent politics of suffering through a historicized reading of Foucault’s typology of power, ...
Tópico(s): Global Security and Public Health
2019 - SAGE Publishing | European Journal of Social Theory
In the past decade there have been efforts to understand the war on terror through the writings of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Some analyses reify certain concepts employed by Foucault and Agamben. Others do not accurately represent the actual occurrence of violence at ground level. Without claiming to present a sovereign gaze on the literature and the reading of sovereign violence in places such as Guántanamo, this article argues that there are at least three central elements that philosophers ...
Tópico(s): Global Security and Public Health
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Alternatives Global Local Political
... case of writing about the first volume of Homo sacer: Il potere sovrano e la nuda vita {Homo Sacer: Sove-reign Power and Bare Life}, 2 lacked ... of All Things): On Method. 2 Giorgio Agamben, Homo sacer: il potere sovrano e la nuda vita (Torino: ...
Tópico(s): Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
2010 - Copenhagen Business School | Foucault Studies
... Giorgio Agamben’s “sovereign” and the colonials with “homo sacer”—not a comfortable fit, since the defining quality ... law and deploy lethal violence, while that of homo sacer is the liability of being killed without redeeming ... subtleties, Chander emphasizes instead the logic that tethers homo sacer to the politics of sovereignty, the baleful logic ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean history, culture, and politics
2020 - Duke University Press | Modern Language Quarterly
... empires. Agamben instead resurrects the obscure figure of homo sacer, an ancient Roman form of outlaw interpreted as ... slaves and barbarians (whose real-life referents, like homo sacer, are also both historical and contemporary)—but also ... outlaws, slaves, and barbarians, what is obscured by homo sacer, and what this "limit figure" can bring to ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2012 - HAU-N.E.T | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
... theory of Giorgio Agamben, specifically his concept of homo sacer, can be usefully deployed to understand the regulation ... as a non-citizen or bare life — the homo sacer — and that this elucidates the degrees of violence ...
Tópico(s): Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Punishment & Society
... points throughout the book, Butler cites Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Chapter Three of ... volumes, which were not published in chronological order. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Citation1998) is volume ... divine violence," also addressed repeatedly throughout Agamben's Homo Sacer project, mirrors and dialogues with Schmitt's understanding ...
Tópico(s): Political Theology and Sovereignty
2011 - Routledge | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
The last two volumes of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer series are concerned with developing a theory of ... bare life that forms the core of the Homo Sacer series? First, the author describes how the original ...
Tópico(s): Foucault, Power, and Ethics
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Theory Culture & Society
... 3 (Fall 2001), p. 40. 17 G. Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Translated by Daniel ... York, Verso, 1999), pp. 18–37. 47 Agamben, Homo Sacer. 48 African National Congress, Greater Johannesburg and Zone ... Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (Durham NC and London, Duke University Press, 2005), ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Refugees, and Integration
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Southern African Studies
Nasser Hussain, Melissa Ptacek,
Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 199 ... Giorgio Agamben (1998:114-15) Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is one of ... by Agamben's own ambitious-and apocalyptic-declarations. Homo Sacer began, we are told a cryptic aside, as ...
Tópico(s): Political Theology and Sovereignty
2000 - Cambridge University Press | Law & Society Review
... I term a figuration of the (Muslim) cyber homo sacer . Particularly focusing upon the proliferation of virulent, anti- ... BanMuslim to demonstrate how Agamben's concepts of homo sacer , state of exception, and the camp—though with ...
Tópico(s): Social Media and Politics
2021 - Pluto Journals | Islamophobia Studies Journal
... I see Riel as a Canadian version of homo sacer , “who may be killed but not sacrificed,” and ... la souveraineté canadienne. Pour moi, Riel est un homo sacer version canadienne, quelqu'un qui peut être éliminé ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2010 - Cambridge University Press | Canadian Journal of Political Science
... s analyses of modern subjectivities, while the Sovereign/Homo sacer dichotomy has a similar position according to Agamben. ... to bare human life or the status of Homo sacer?
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
2005 - Stockholm University Press | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Paolo Giaccaria, Claudio Minca,
... p 27. Mazower, 'Foucault', p 27. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), orig. Homo Sacer (Turin: Einaudi, 1995). Claudio Minca, 'Agamben's geographies ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Genocide Research
... the equivalent of Agamben's [Agamben, Giorgio (1995) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press.] homo sacer, she who can be killed without charge of ...
Tópico(s): Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
2006 - Elsevier BV | Women s Studies International Forum
France Maphosa, Christopher Ntau,
The concept of homo sacer originates from ancient Roman law under which an individual who committed a certain kind of crime was excluded from ... the two countries fit Agamben’s description of homo sacer. While migrants in general, whether documented or undocumented, are targets of violence, exploitation and discrimination in these countries, undocumented ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Refugees, and Integration
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Asian and African Studies
... Wille zum Wissen and Agamben Agamben, Giorgio. 2002. Homo sacer: Die souveräne Macht und das nackte Leben, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. [Google Scholar], Homo sacer. 25. Thompson Thompson, John B. 1996. The Media ...
Tópico(s): European Political History Analysis
2008 - Taylor & Francis | European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire
... s argument in the second sequel to the Homo Sacer project, State of Exception (Agamben Citation2005b). 3 See ... also questions Agamben's reading of the term homo sacer in Roman law. 7 This separation is presented ... Agamben's conception of temporality to task, writing: 'Homo Sacer returns to a representation of time – the tie ...
Tópico(s): Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Culture, theory and critique/Culture, theory & critique
... beings form a community."2 When, in the Homo Sacer project, Agamben turns to diagnose the way in ... the ambiguous role that 'bare life' plays in Homo Sacer. While the term principally refers to life that ... and political philosophy through which they are theorized? Homo Sacer famously opens by noting that the Ancient Greeks ...
Tópico(s): Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Theory & Event
... Turkey routinely find themselves in the position of homo sacer: the bare life that has been rendered politically ... s account, in which subjects are turned into homo sacers in a singular gesture of the sovereign, my ...
Tópico(s): Gender Politics and Representation
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Social & Legal Studies
... to the political realm. Notes1The series that follows Homo Sacer expands Agamben's analysis of the sovereign state ... of the human (1999) and an elaboration of homo sacer in the figure of the refugee (2000).2To ...
Tópico(s): Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Culture, theory and critique/Culture, theory & critique