Os espaços do entre: o estado de exceção em Giorgio Agamben

• Autor(a) principal: Borges Neto, João Lourenço
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000bbfg
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7739
• topic: Soberania; Estado de exceção; Vida nua; Biopolítica; Giorgio Agamben; Sovereignty; State of exception; Bare life; Biopolitics; Giorgio Agamben; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

At the end of the year 2013, in Athens, Giorgio Agamben presented an important reflection on the fate of European democracy. According the philosopher, we no longer live under the aegis of democracy and the governmental paradigm of our time could not even be called political. The concept that replaced any political notions was that of security, and the slogan "for security reasons" has taken on a worldwide scale the new parameter of government of the contemporary political order. In order to understand this diagnosis, Giorgio Agamben proposed, on that occasion, the invitation to carry out a genealogy of the concept of security from an acute research on its origin and history in the paradigm of state of exception. This dissertation aims, together with Agamben, to untangle the concept of a state of exception, too demonstrating its implication and relation with human life. The concept of exception state developed by Agamben during the Homo Sacer project resumes the debate about the law between Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin in the 1920s. We reconstitute this debate step-by-step to demonstrate how essential it was for Agamben to contact the works of the German jurist for the development of the theme of exception. It was, however, taking on Benjamin's side in that discussion that the Italian philosopher was instigated to direct his fiercest criticisms of the democratic state of law. It follows from this takeover of the diagnoses of being the state of exception the governance paradigm of contemporaneity and the sign that the state of exception inscribes sovereignty in a paradox. We also develop Agamben's proposal to point to the confluence between the biopolitical model coined by Foucault, but years before also diagnosed by Hannah Arendt, and the juridical-institutional model. That is, the point where life and right touch the figure of the sovereign and the bare life. What this dissertation also worried to point out from the title was how much the contact with the theoretical contribution of Walter Benjamin was decisive for Agamben in the development of his political concepts composed in the political project Homo Sacer.