Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Translated byDaniel Heller-Roazen
PublisherStanford University Press
SeriesMeridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Series EditorWerner Hamacher, David E. Wellbery
Cover ArtistJean Evans
Copyright Holder (Original Edition)Giulio Einaudi Editore S.P.A.
Copyright HolderBoard Of Trustess Of The Leland Stanford Junior University
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Copyright1995
Copyright1998
First Printing in Country1998
Printed2013
Pages / Font199 pages
ISBN 100-8047-3218-3
Barcode9 780804 732185
Barcode9780804732185
Library of Congress Classification Number97-36621
Library of Congress Call NumberJC571.A16813 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification Number320'.01'1—dc21
Printer's Key16 15 14 13
ChaptersIntroduction - 1 Part One: The Logic of Sovereignty 1 - The Paradox of Sovereignty - 15 2 - 'Nomos Basileus' - 30 3 - Potentiality and Law - 39 4 - Form of Law - 49 Threshold - 63 Part Two: Homo Sacer 1 - Homo Sacer - 71 2 - The Ambivalence of the Sacred - 75 3 - Sacred Life - 81 4 - 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' - 87 5 - Sovereign Body and Sacred Body - 91 6 - The Ban and the Wolf - 104 Threshold - 112 Part Three: The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern 1 - The Politicization of Life - 119 2 - Biopolitics and the Rights of Man - 126 3 - Life That Does Not Deserve to Live - 136 4 - 'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People' - 144 5 - VP - 154 6 - Politicizing Death - 160 7 - The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern - 166 Threshold - 181 Bibliography - 189 Index of Names - 197
NotesOriginal Italian edition's copyright is 1995. "Cover photograph shows the second master plan for Auschwitz, February 1942. Original is in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, box 2/2, file BW 2/17." "Printed in the United States of America[.]"
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