Life, Law, and Abandonment in Giorgio Agamben

Authors

  • Manas Ray

Keywords:

Exception, Law, Modernity, Holocaust, Testimony, Agamben

Abstract

The present article deals with the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and explores his seminal concepts like ‘homo sacer’ and ‘state of exception’ to examine the relationship between law and human life and probes into the philosopher’s thoughts on the function of the biopolitical machine in the modern state to allocate the positions of terror vis-a-vis legality and the function of sovereignty. Working through Agamben’s body of thought and relating it to a host of other political thinkers like Schmitt and Mbembe for example, it sketches out the fundamental definition of politics and what it means to be in relation to that in our modern times.

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Author Biography

Manas Ray

teaches Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is currently working on three projects: indenture, diaspora and displacement in South Asia, narratives of memory of post-partition Calcutta, & biopolitics and Indian democracy. Between 2009 and 2011, he was the editor of Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, the journal of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla).

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Published

2021-10-27

How to Cite

Ray, M. . (2021). Life, Law, and Abandonment in Giorgio Agamben. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 1(1), 27–43. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/22