Homo sacer

基本信息

Series:Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Format:Paperback / softback 216 pages

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Imprint:Stanford University Press

ISBN:9780804732185

Published:1 Apr 1998

Weight:298g

Dimensions:223 x 154 x 13 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

◆“神圣人”生命政治系列的开篇之作

◆无可争议的政治哲学经典名著

在《神圣人》中，阿甘本旨在把关于纯粹可能性、潜在性与权力的问题，同政治与社会伦理的问题在以下语境中连接起来：后者已丧失其早前的宗教、形而上学与文化的立基。阿甘本从福柯关于生命权力的碎片性分析中获得启示，进而以巨大的广度、强度与敏锐度，在传统政治理论史中探查关于一种生命权力理念的隐秘在场。他指出，从政治理论的最早论题（尤其是亚里士多德关于人作为一种政治动物的论述）开始，并且在整个关于主权（无论是国王还是国家）的西方思想史中，主权作为一种针对“生命”的权力的理念，始终隐秘存在。

阿甘本认为，这一理念始终保持纯然隐在的原因，在于神圣之域（或者说神圣性的理念）同主权的理念紧密关联的方式。阿甘本的研究建立在两大基础之上：卡尔·施米特认为，主权者的状态乃是其所守卫的诸种规范的例外；人类学的研究已揭示神圣之域同禁忌之间的紧密交链。在此两者之上，阿甘本将神圣之人定义为那种能被杀死但不能被祭祀的人；在他看来，这个悖论性的人物恰恰仍活跃在现代个体的状态中——现代个体生活在一个对所有个体的集体性“赤裸生命”施加严密控制的系统中。

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.

In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault's fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle's notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over "life" is implicit.

The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitt's idea of the sovereign's status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificed―a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective "naked life" of all individuals.

作者简介

吉奥乔·阿甘本（1942— ） 意大利哲学界和激进政治理论界的领袖人物。他早年任教于意大利的马切拉塔大学和维罗纳大学，之后在威尼斯建筑大学、巴黎的国际哲学研究院、瑞士萨斯斐的欧洲研究生院和瑞士门德里西奥建筑学院担任教职至今。另外，他还是美国西北大学与加州大学伯克利分校的客座教授。

阿甘本深受海德格尔和本雅明思想的熏陶，曾参加过海德格尔关于黑格尔和赫拉克利特的研讨班，主持过本雅明著作意大利译本的翻译工作。他对欧陆哲学、政治思想、宗教研究以及文学和艺术的融会贯通，使他成为我们时代z具挑战性的思想家之一，其著作已对很多学科产生了重要影响。代表作另有《王国与荣耀》《例外状态》《万物的签名》《奥斯维辛的残余》等。

Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the University of Venice.