scholarly journals Estado de exceção: Giorgio Agamben entre Walter Benjamin e Carl Schmitt [State of exception: Giorgio Agamben between Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt]

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (47) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Danigui Renigui Martins de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The State ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
The West ◽  
The Creation

O presente trabalho pretende apresentar algumas considerações acerca do Estado de exceção pensado por Agamben a partir do diálogo existente entre Walter Benjamin e Carl Schmitt. Para realizar tal tarefa teremos como referência basilar o capítulo “Gigantomachia intorno a un vuoto”, da obra Estado de exceção. No referido capítulo, Agamben nos revela a existência de um diálogo entre Schmitt e Benjamin que influenciou a criação do conceito de exceção em ambos. Porém, para Agamben, o conceito de exceção parece ser algo que ultrapassa a discussão realizada por Benjamin e Schmitt, revelando a estrutura jurídico-política do Ocidente.[The present work intends to show some considerations about the State of exception thought by Agamben from the existing dialogue between Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt. To carry out this task we will have as a reference the chapter "Gigantomachia intorno a un vuoto", from the book State of exception. In that chapter, Agamben reveals to us the existence of a dialogue between Schmitt and Benjamin that influenced the creation of the concept of exception for the both of them. However, for Agamben, the concept of exception seems to be something that goes beyond the discussion held by Benjamin and Schmitt, revealing the legal-political structure of the West.]

Walter Benjamin’s Esteem for Carl Schmitt

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst Bredekamp
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Clear Cut

This chapter shows why Carl Schmitt’s philosophical theories retained their fascination and conceptual force for young intellectuals in postwar Germany. Publication of a letter Walter Benjamin had written to Schmitt in 1930, which revealed his esteem for Schmitt, was a catalyst for philosophers such as Jacob Taubes, who had distanced himself from Schmitt. Taubes’s research into the two men’s relationship helped to overcome the postwar construction of a clear-cut distinction between good and bad, shedding new light on the work of both philosophers and the intellectual atmosphere of the Weimar period. Benjamin’s and Schmitt’s works convey a strong mutual influence, especially throughout the 1930s, implicitly revealed in Benjamin’s appropriation of Schmitt’s concept of the “state of exception.” The appeal of Schmitt’s theory for Benjamin lay in its suggestive force about the roles of aesthetics and avant-garde.

scholarly journals Estado de exceção: o poder soberano e a captura da vida / State of exception: the soberan power and the capture of life

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Lara Emanuele da Luz
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The State ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Current Time ◽  
The One

Giorgio Agamben, filósofo italiano, apresenta um diagnóstico da modernidade bastante relevante para nosso tempo atual. Para ele, a biopolítica existe desde o nascimento do pensamento político Ocidental, e é ela que rege e captura a vida das pessoas pertencentes à polis. Para isso, é necessário que o Estado de exceção comece a tornar-se regra para que nele, tudo possa ser instaurado. Nestes termos, o presente artigo pretende apresentar, por um lado, o que é e quais as características do Estado de exceção para Agamben, ressaltando o diálogo deste com o Carl Schmitt, grande inspirador do filósofo italiano sobre o Estado de Exceção. Por outro lado, explicar-se-á de que modo a biopolítica e o campo de concentração nascem através desse, e suas principais características. Para isso, faz-se necessário passar por um percurso explicativo, analisando aspectos da biopolítica sob a perspectiva de Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault, grandes inspiradores de Agamben neste aspecto.AbstractGiorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher, presents a diagnosis of modernity very relevant to our current time. For him, biopolitics has existed since the birth of Western political thought, and it’s it that rules and captures the lives of people belonging to the polis. For this, it’s necessary that the State of exception begins to become the rule so that everything can be established in it. However, this article intends to present, on the one hand, what’s and what the characteristics of the State of exception for Agamben, highlighting his dialogue with Carl Schmitt, great inspiration of the Italian philosopher on the State of Exception. On the other hand, it’ll be explained how the biopolitics and the concentration camp are born through this, and its main characteristics. For this, it’s necessary to go through an explanatory course, analyzing aspects of biopolitics from the perspective of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, Agamben's great inspirers in this regard.

scholarly journals NEPAPRASTOJI PADĖTIS IR DIEVIŠKASIS SMURTAS: CARLO SCHMITTO IR WALTERIO BENJAMINO MINČIŲ KRYŽKELĖS

Problemos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Kasparas Pocius
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
World Population ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Divine Violence

Šiuolaikinės politinės filosofijos kontekste jau maždaug dvidešimt metų neatslūgsta domėjimasis biopolitinėmis teorijomis, kurių dėmesio centre atsiduria valdžios ir gyvybės santykis šiuolaikiniame pasaulyje, kairiųjų politinių filosofų vadinamame Imperija. Italų filosofo Giorgio Agambeno dėka biopolitikos instrumentai buvo panaudoti nepaprastosios padėties ir homo sacer sampratų tyrinėjimams. Šiame tekste, pasitelkiant nepaprastosios padėties bei su ja susijusias sampratas, bus gilinamasi į šiuolaikinės valdžios ir valdymo problemas. Aptarsime vokiečių teisės teoretiko Carlo Schmitto nepaprastosios padėties teoriją, kaip alternatyvą jai pateikdami Walterio Benjamino mesianistinę tyro dieviškojo smurto sampratą. Straipsnio tikslas – pagrįsti Benjamino idėją, kad dieviškasis smurtas gali įveikti galios taikomą prievartą. Kita vertus, keliama idėja, kad Schmitto suverenios galios samprata užmaskuoja biopolitinį galios institucijų prievartos mechanizmą, o Benjamino dieviškojo smurto samprata leidžia jį demaskuoti.State of Exception and Divine Violence: The Crossroads between the Thought of Carl Schmitt and Walter BenjaminKasparas Pocius SummaryAlready back in 1940 Walter Benjamin told us that “the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” While invoking this claim, Giorgio Agamben enriches the contemporary biopolitical discourse with such concepts as ‘state of exception’ and ‘homo sacer’, which refer to bare lives of the majority of world population under contemporary capitalist and state rule. This paper, which seeks to analyse the work of Agamben, presents the notion of the state of exception by Carl Schmitt and counterposes it to the Benjaminian concept of divine violence. This counterposition allows to theoretically question the Schmittian politico-theological discourse which has been increasingly used by the conservative intellectuals and right-wing movements in the Eastern Europe, ‘the necessity of defending the nation and the state’ that they posit and to show the often concealed links between this discourse with biopower regimes. On the other hand, it is an attempt to point at a presence of multiple and radical constituent forces which, beyond liberal – constitutional and authoritarian – conservative frameworks of the State pose the threat to the political and economic order of late capitalism.

scholarly journals Kongen hersker, men regerer ikke - Guvernementalitet, statificering og statspraksis hos Michel Foucault

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Nicolai Von Eggers ◽  
Mathias Hein Jessen
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Michel Foucault developed his now (in)famous neologism governmentality in the first of the two lectures he devoted to ’a history of governmentality, Security, Territory, Population (1977-78) and The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-79). Foucault developed this notion in order to do a historical investigation of ‘the state’ or ‘the political’ which did not assume the entity of the state but treated it as a way of governing, a way of thinking about governing. Recently, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has taken up Foucault’s notion of governmentality in his writing of a history of power in the West, most notably in The Kingdom and the Glory. It is with inspiration from Agamben’s recent use of Foucault that Foucault’s approach to writing the history of the state (as a history of governmental practices and the reflection hereof) is revisited. Foucault (and Agamben) thus offer another way of writing the history of the state and of the political, which focuses on different texts and on reading more familiar texts in a new light, thereby offering a new and notably different view on the emergence of the modern state and politics.

scholarly journals L’État et la guerre

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Ninon Grangé
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Cette Condition

Résumé Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt puis Giorgio Agamben ont chacun remis en cause l’idée de norme, dans l’État confronté à la violence, à partir de la notion d’exception. Or l’état d’exception revient à traiter juridiquement d’une matière politique et à occulter le déclencheur, réel ou fantasmé, de l’exception juridique, à savoir la guerre. Une proposition pour comprendre conjointement la difficulté du droit à s’ajuster au surgissement de la violence et l’explosion des formes de guerre répertoriées par l’histoire, consiste à abandonner l’idée de fiction juridique au profit de « fictions politiques ». Ce faisant on substitue à la notion de norme celle, plus descriptive, du phénomène de la violence collective, de « référence » à un type abstrait de guerre pour mesurer les guerres réelles. C’est à cette condition que l’on peut repenser l’exception et son déclencheur, ainsi que l’indétermination première entre guerre extérieure et guerre intérieure.

The developmental history of solitary and supermax confinement: toward a phenomenology of the state of exception

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Polizzi
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Political ◽  
Developmental History ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
History Of

The phenomenology of solitary and supermax confinement reflects what Giorgio Agamben has defined as the state of exception. The state of exception is defined as the blurring of the legal and political order, which constructs a zone of indifference for those forced to endure this situation. This notion of the state of exception can be applied to the zone of indifference created by the Supreme Court, which seems unwilling to outlaw this harmful practice relative to 8th Amendment protections prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment and the political order which is all too inclined to continue use strategy. One of the central aspects of this “ecology of harm”, is the way in which the very structures of this type of confinement, helps to invite and legitimize abusive attitudes and behaviors in penitentiary staff.

SAYYIDA ZAYNAB IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION: SHIʿI SAINTHOOD AS “QUALIFIED LIFE” IN CONTEMPORARY SYRIA

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Szanto
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
The State ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Nazi Concentration Camp ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
The Law

AbstractAccording to Giorgio Agamben, a “state of exception” is established by the sovereign's decision to suspend the law, and the archetypical state of exception is the Nazi concentration camp. At the same time, Agamben notes that boundaries have become blurred since then, such that even spaces like refugee camps can be thought of as states of exception because they are both inside and outside the law. This article draws on the notion of the state of exception in order to examine the Syrian refugee campcumshrine town of Sayyida Zaynab as well as to analyze questions of religious authority, ritual practice, and pious devotion to Sayyida Zaynab. Though Sayyida Zaynab and many of her Twelver Shiʿi devotees resemble Agamben's figure ofhomo sacer, who marked the origin of the state of exception, they also defy Agamben's theory that humans necessarily become animal-like, leading nothing more than “bare lives” (orzoē) in states of exception.

scholarly journals Estado de exceção como regra: a vida nua sob o “eclipse político” em Giorgio Agamben / State of exception as a rule: the bare life under the "political eclipse" in Giorgio Agamben

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Maria Do Socorro Catarina de Sousa Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Security ◽  
Original Objective

Um dos temas de maior relevância abordado por Giorgio Agamben diz respeito ao estado de exceção como paradigma político, ou seja, o estado de exceção não se restringe aos Estados totalitários, mas a uma prática governamental que vem se propagando rapidamente, inclusive nas sociedades democráticas. Assim, o presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar, a partir de duas obras que compõem o Projeto Homo Sacer, a saber, Homo Sacer: o poder soberano e a vida nua I (2002), e Estado de Exceção: homo sacer II (2004), os principais elementos que formatam a teoria agambeniana do estado de exceção como paradigma de governo e como o delineamento de suas teses nos permite falar em “eclipse político”, o qual está concretizado na impotência do cidadão diante do poder soberano, a figura híbrida que tem a sua disposição não apenas a máquina governamental, mas o próprio ordenamento jurídico desvirtuado de seu objetivo original de proteção e segurança jurídica para um complexo e malicioso mecanismo de manutenção da “ordem social”. AbstractOne of the most relevant topics addressed by Giorgio Agamben is the state of exception as a political paradigm, that is, the state of exception is not restricted to totalitarian states, but to a government practice that is spreading rapidly, even in democratic societies. Thus, this article aims to analyze, from two works that make up the Homo Sacer Project, namely Homo Sacer: sovereign power and naked life I (2002), and State of Exception: homo sacer II (2004) ), the main elements that form the agambenian theory of the state of exception as a paradigm of government and how the delineation of its theses allows us to speak in "political eclipse", which is concretized in the impotence of the citizen before the sovereign power, the hybrid figure which has at its disposal not only the governmental machine, but the legal system itself distorted from its original objective of protection and legal security for a complex and malicious mechanism of maintenance of the "social order".

scholarly journals Exceção e vida nua: diálogos entre a literatura de Nassar e a de Sófocles / Exception and life nua: dialogues between the literature of Nassar and of Sophocles

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Elijames Moraes dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Este artigo propõe analisar como as categorias do estado de exceção e da vida nua são dramatizados nos textos Antígona, de Sófocles, e Lavoura Arcaica, de Raduan Nassar. Para alcançar o objetivo estabelecido, consideramos os estudos sobre esses conceitos propostos no projeto Homo Sacer, de Giorgio Agamben (2007; 2014), entre outras fontes que respaldam este estudo. Seguindo a proposta agambeniana, enfatizamos a relação de soberania com o estado de exceção, culminando, muitas vezes na eliminação do vivente. Aspecto este que fica evidente no desenrolar das ações presentes em ambas as narrativas em análise.AbstractThis article proposes to analyze how the categories of the state of exception and bare life are dramatized in the texts Antigone, by Sophocles, and Ancient tillage¸ by Raduan Nassar. To reach the established objective, we consider the studies on these concepts proposed in the project Homo Sacer, by Giorgio Agamben (2007, 2014), among other sources that support this study. Following the Agambenian proposal, we emphasize the relationship of sovereignty with the state of exception, culminating, often in the elimination of the living. This aspect is evident in the unfolding of the actions present in both narratives under analysis.

scholarly journals A exceção como dispositivo de governo

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (20) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
Luciano Nuzzo
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Giorgio Agamben

Por meio da discussão das ideias de Carl Schmitt e Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben, este artigo visa a analisar o funcionamento de um dispositivo de governo que usa a exceção como norma. Esse dispositivo é definido como “excepcionalismo soberano” e introduz novas formas de controle, que resultam de uma combinação inédita entre excepcionalismo e governamentalidade, em que o Direito e as instituições democráticas continuam a existir, mas são sempre mais esvaziadas, revogadas por meio de práxis governamentais. O excepcionalismo soberano, em última instância, coloca-nos frente aos paradoxos do Direito e desconstrói radicalmente a geometria política moderna e a razão que constituiu seu pressuposto.

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