Giorgio Agamben

Leviathans Rätsel

Lucas-Preis 2013
Edited by Friedrich Hermanni
Translated by Paul Silas Peterson
[Leviathan's Riddle.]
2014. 106 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-160791-2
Published in German.
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Summary
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.

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