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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

1998, Giorgio Agamben

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Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics informs many of his writings.

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