No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Since this page cannot accommodate all the copyright notices, the Credits constitutes an extension of the copyright page. This book was negotiated through Agnese Incisa Agenzia Letteraria, Torino. T H E OM N I BUS HOMO SAC E R MERI DI AN Crossing Aesthetics THE OMNIBUS HOMO SACER GIORGIO AGAMBEN STAN FO RD UN IVERSITY PRESS STA NF ORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. The Myth of Er Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Destituent Potential Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credits Citation preview Toward a Modal Ontology Intermezzo II III. The Inappropriable Intermezzo I PART TWO: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY 1. THE USE OF BODIES Contents Translator’s Note Prefatory Note Prologue PART ONE: THE USE OF BODIES 1. Highest Poverty and Use Threshold Bibliography IV, 2. The Rule as a Liturgical Text Threshold PART THREE: FORM-OF-LIFE 1. Flight from the World and Constitution Threshold PART TWO: LITURGY AND RULE 1. THE HIGHEST POVERTY: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life Contents Translator’s Note Preface PART ONE: RULE AND LIFE 1. The Archive and Testimony Bibliography IV, 1. REMNANTS OF AUSCHWITZ: The Witness and the Archive Contents Preface 1.

The Two Ontologies or, How Duty Entered into Ethics Threshold Bibliography III. OPUS DEI: An Archaeology of Duty Contents Translator’s Note Preface 1. The Archaeology of Glory Threshold Appendix: The Economy of the Moderns 1. The Kingdom and the Government Threshold 5. THE KINGDOM AND THE GLORY: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government Contents Translator’s Note Preface 1. THE SACRAMENT OF LANGUAGE: An Archaeology of the Oath Contents Translator’s Note Abbreviations The Sacrament of Language Bibliography II, 4. Leviathan and Behemoth Bibliography II, 3. STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm Contents Foreword 1. Auctoritas and Potestas Bibliography II, 2. The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government 2. STATE OF EXCEPTION Contents Translator’s Note 1. The Camp as the ‘Nomos’ of the Modern Threshold Bibliography II, 1. ‘Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People’ 5. The Ban and the Wolf Threshold PART THREE: THE CAMP AS BIOPOLITICAL PARADIGM OF THE MODERN 1. Form of Law Threshold PART TWO: HOMO SACER 1. HOMO SACER: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Contents Introduction PART ONE: THE LOGIC OF SOVEREIGNTY 1.

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