homo sacer

Homo sacer was therefore excluded from law itself, while being included at the same time.

Homo sacer is an obscure figure of Roman law who is banned.

Homo sacer, more precisely, is he who may be killed yet not sacrificed, murdered without the commission of homicide (82-3).

Roman law no longer applied to someone deemed a Homo sacer, although they would remain "under the spell" of law.

It was not a religious duty (fas) to execute a homo sacer, but he could be killed with impunity.

Within the state of exception, the distinction between bios (citizen) and zoe (homo sacer) is made by those with judicial power.

The homo sacer could thus also simply mean a person expunged from society and deprived of all rights and all functions in civil religion.

In the case of certain monarchs in western legal traditions, the sovereign and the Homo Sacer have conflated.

Philosopher Giorgio Agamben's concepts of state of exception and homo sacer are useful to consider within a geography of violence.

Agamben's concept of the homo sacer rests on a crucial distinction in Greek between 'bare life' (la vita nuda, Gk.

Homo sacer is defined in legal terms as someone who can be killed without the killer being regarded as a murderer; and a person who cannot be sacrificed.

Mr. Mohammed has become what the Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls "homo sacer": a creature legally dead while biologically still alive.

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes the concept as the starting point of his main work Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998).

Indeed, as Bauman argued, what the European Christian bourgeois could not truly forgive and forget regarding Hitler was not the crime of genocide, but the bringing of the homo sacer to Europe.

Described by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in his book Homo Sacer; 'sovereign power and bare life' as a person who is living a 'naked life' and is an outcast of society.

The reduction of life to 'biopolitics' is one of the main threads in Agamben's work, in his critical conception of a homo sacer, reduced to 'bare life', and thus deprived of any rights.

Someone becomes Homo Sacer by breaking a legal agreement or oath; people who illegally cross the borders between countries have often been referred to and treated as Homo Sacer.

In his seminal Homo Sacer series, Giorgio Agamben has up till now marshaled obscure concepts from Roman law to criticise the modern eclipse of principled politics by the mere management of population.

In Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power or Bare Life (1998), philosopher Giorgio Agamben mentioned a number of denaturalization laws that were passed after World War I by most European countries:

Agamben would continue to expand the theory of the state of exception first introduced in "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life", ultimately leading to the "State of Exception" in 2005.

Homo sacer (Latin for "the sacred man" or "the accursed man") is a figure of Roman law: a person who is banned and may be killed by anybody, but may not be sacrificed in a religious ritual.

Much of Giorgio Agamben's work since the 1980s can be viewed to leading up to the so-called Homo Sacer-project, that properly begins with the book Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.

The American authorities who deal with detainees have become a sort of counterpart to homo sacer: acting as a legal power, they operate in an empty space that is sustained by the law and yet not regulated by the rule of law.

In his main work "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life" (1998), Giorgio Agamben analyzes an obscure figure of Roman law that poses some fundamental questions to the nature of law and power in general.

Thus, Agamben opposes Foucault's concept of "biopolitics" to right (law), as he defines the state of exception, in Homo sacer, as the inclusion of life by right under the figure of ex-ception, which is simultaneously inclusion and exclusion.