Homo Sacer And Right | | Posted on:2020-04-29 | Degree:Master | Type:Thesis | | Country:China | Candidate:Q Quan | Full Text:PDF | | GTID:2416330602953241 | Subject:Political science | | Abstract/Summary: | PDF Full Text Request | | Since the enlightenment,the understanding of the self has been widely concerned by thinkers.The great discussion about life philosophy in the 20th century is trying to fight with life against reason so that the will of life itself can be brought into the thinking.Giorgio Agamben is one of the most hotly debated political philosophers of today.Agamben’s project is a total restructuring of modern political thought:instead of building upon the idea of a citizen,it should be built with the idea of the stateless human being,who has been stripped of all rights,as its point of departure.Agamben’s works deal with all the classic philosophical problems.His political philosophical project was shape with the publications under the headline‘Homo Sacer’.Such a life——The Politicization of Life,devoid of all form,is the kind of life Agamben seeks to understand in Homo Sacer.Since his biological life isolated from the rest of his being and given over to the sovereign and under the sovereign’s absolute control.The camp is the space that appears when the state of exception becomes the rule and gains a permanent spatial form.After that,homo sacer experiences the sovereign power in its most abstract,formal,excluding,and death-carrying capacity.This theory urges the ideological circle to face up to the current situation of today’s democratic countries.The foundation of modern politics should not be based on the citizens of Democratic Countries.Instead,they should face the real existence of individuals without human rights and without national citizenship.Agamben rejects the assumption of American liberalism,which requires that metaphysical question should be kept out of the political realm.Thus,Agamben insisted that the idea of homo sacer is still with us.It functions as an unconscious background of our contemporary political lives. | | Keywords/Search Tags: | Biopolitics, Homo, Sacer, Right | PDF Full Text Request | Related items |
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