Search results for "Agamben"
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Polis and Oikos : The Art of Politics in the Greek City-State
2020
The Greek city-state has traditionally been viewed as an entity that was divided into two distinct spheres (oikos and polis) and governed by two distinct arts (oikonomia and politikê technê). The aim of this article is to show that this image of the Greek city-state is not very accurate. The relationship between the oikos and the polis was not exclusive in classical poleis. Particularly in Athens during the democratic period, the polis was depicted as a family writ large, and to the extent that oikos was seen as an entity of its own, it was a part of the polis, not excluded from or opposed to it. My aim is to show that the art of the household and the art of politics were not distinct arts …
DIALECTIC AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY IN ERNESTO LACLAU
2020
The present article aims to examine critically Laclau’s claim that the trend toward social heterogenization revokes the Dialectic, or, more specifically, the clear and strict line of demarcation between what falls within the Dialectic and what falls outside of it. Polemicizing with the assumption of this reading, I argue that the appearance of a radical heterogeneity rather exposes the undecidability of relations between the Dialectic and what is a heterogeneity. To undergo the experience of this relation means not only to confront something that dislocates the Dialectic, but also what makes it what it is. The concrete determination of this limit relation is precisely what is at stake in th…
Stato di eccezione e storia del diritto romano
2022
Il contributo si sofferma sull'uso della storia del diritto romano nella ricerca degli archetipi dello stato di eccezione e valuta criticamente, in particolare, le differenti ricostruzioni suggerite da Carl Schmitt e Giorgio Agamben.
When did biopolitics begin? : Actuality and potentiality in historical events
2022
The article addresses the ongoing debate about the origins of biopolitics. While Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics approached it as a modern rationality of government, Agamben’s Homo Sacer series presented biopolitics as having a longer provenance, dating back to the antiquity. These polar positions are not mutually exclusive but coexist in these and other theories of biopolitics, which approach its object as both modern and ancient, having its chronological origin in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries yet also possessing a prehistory of precursors. The article interprets this dual origin in terms of Paolo Virno’s theory of historical temporality, which distinguishes between the chron…
Sosiaalisen nousu ja paljas elämä : Arendt suhteessa Foucault'n ja Agambenin edustamaan biopolitiikan teoriaperinteeseen
2016
Tutkielman tarkoituksena on vertailla Hannah Arendtin poliittista ajattelua biopolitiikan kahden keskeisen teoreetikon Michel Foucault’n ja Giorgio Agambenin ajatteluun. Arendt analysoi sosiaalisen nousua, jonka yhteydessä moderni hallinto on kiinnostunut ihmisestä ennen kaikkea ihmislajin biologisena edustajana. Michel Foucault’n teoria biovallasta puolestaan väittää, että ihmisestä on 1600- ja 1700-luvuilta lähtien kiinnostuttu hallinnollisesta näkökulmasta biologisina ruumiina ja väestöinä. Arendt ja Foucault analysoivat modernin nousuun liittyvää ilmiötä, jossa elämä ja hallinta kohtaavat uudenlaisella tavalla. Lisäksi molemmat ajattelijat käsittelevät tahoillaan biopolitiikan yhteyttä …
Dionysian biopolitics : Karl Kerényi's concept of indestructible life
2014
Scholar of religion Karl Kerényi’s last book, Dionysos, is a grand attempt at reinterpreting ζωη (zoe), the Greek concept of indestructible life, which he distinguishes from βίος (bios), finite life. In Kerényi’s view, the meaning and sensual experience of zoe was expressed in its richest form in the Cretan beginnings of the cult of Dionysos. The major characteristics of this cult, as Kerényi describes, were beyond the cultural, political, and sexual limits of the Christian interpretations of life and nature. Searching for modern analogies to zoe, Kerényi explains the idea in relation to molecular biology’s minimum definition of life. Despite the fact that Kerényi’s book contains only minor…