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Giorgio Agamben
Leviathans Rätsel
Lucas-Preis 2013
Edited by Friedrich Hermanni
Translated by Paul Silas Peterson
[Leviathan's Riddle.]
2014. 106 pages. Published in German.
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In the course of history, Giorgio Agamben sees an increasing tendency to create legal vacuums and to reduce human beings to their »bare lives.« This sovereign abrogation of law is an exceptional state in which the sovereign first has to invent the new law purely arbitrarily. The result is that the newly founded legal community is based on the exclusion of those people who do not belong to it and thus do not have legal protection.