Giorgio Agamben's Analysis of the Mechanism of Exclusion or the Logic of Sovereign Power

• Main Author: De Schrijver, Georges
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: self-grounding of Being; state of exception; Holocaust; killing with impunity; Aristotle; Heidegger; Benjamin
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol18/iss3/1; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1326/viewcontent/Budhi_2018.3_201_20Article_20__20De_20Schrijver.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In Homo sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben extends Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics to include life, stripped bare, that is placed completely at the mercy of the powers that be. For him, the biopolitical paradigm is no longer the asylum but the concentration camp. Agamben d...