The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, in his Homo Sacer-cycle, has developed a new paradigm for thinking the Shoah. Departing from Michel Foucault’s biopolitical thought, he argues that modern political power is made possible by the helix-structure of sovereign power and homo sacer. Sovereign power is situated at the threshold of the prevailing ...
The forgotten are, for Giorgio Agamben (1999, p. 72-73), the ones who demand justice, and should not be consigned to memory and language, but remain unmistakable and nameless. To do justice to the forgotten ones will therefore be to talk about beings without importance and even existence, marked by emptiness and void, plunged into the despair of th...
Slutgiltigt godkännandedatum: 2022-10-03
The purpose of the thesis is to challenge the traditional division between securitization and humanitarian practices in relation to migration, more specifically smuggling of migrants. Based on Nina Perkowski’s study of the relationship between humanitarianism, human rights and security and her theoretical division between paternalistic and emancipa...
This paper propose a reading and application of the homo sacer metaphysical concept, central to the Giorgio Agamben thought. Thus, aims to debug from historical, social and political contexts empirical figures who reflect fundamental bare life features, extending the application of that paradigm. Therefore, is needed to consider some criticism – ex...
This article proposes to show how the Agambenian archaeology takes place through a double movement that, at one and the same time, displays tradition from an exceptional paradigm. It is possible to think here of a play on words, since the word paradigm is usually used as a synonym for model and, in this sense, the exception is what models that whic...
Theodor W. Adorno is both known and criticized for his philosophy of the subject. While his focus on subjectivity by many is deemed an outdated approach, Adorno himself claims that subjectivity must be challenged through the subject itself. What this implies, and how the role of the subject in its transformation can be envisioned, is what I aim to ...
This paper is a contribution to a discussion in philosophy of technology by focusing on the epistemological status of the example. Of the various developments in the emerging, inchoate field of philosophy of technology, the “empirical turn” stands out as having left the most enduring mark on the trajectory contemporary research takes. From a histor...
This study critically examines the intense scholarly interest in violence of recent decades. Consequently, the thesis' main objective is to is to answer two questions in particular: why violence? and why now? First and foremost, this objective is pursued through three separate but interrelated studies. Prior to these, the thesis sets out to affirm...
The distinction between punishments and acts of hostility is central to Hobbes’s theory of punishment in his three political treatises, but also in the ‘Dialogue of the Common-Laws’ and ‘The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance’. Such a distinction is not, as Agamben would have it, the expression of the equivalence between sovereignty...
