![]() ![]() ![]() Political Theory Biopolitics Sovereignty Exception Status. Thus, it is possible to conclude that those topics are still prevailing, even when it seems to have been settled by the liberal hegemony, and the fact that the State is not likely to disappear but that its power is exercised in wider fields, in a more effective way, and with less evident effects. Readers of Homo Sacer and State of Exception probably assumed that the solution to overuse of emergency powers would be to return to normal political structures, but in those books, Agamben. In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship. The Agamben-Arendt-Schmitt debate allows the understanding of the way in which the mechanisms of sovereign power work through the intervention in biological life and the use of legal tools, such as the state of emergency. This paper is a comparative analysis of Agamben’s proposal with Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt’s thought in order to identify the divergences and convergences between them. Sovereignty, state of emergency, biopolitics, and totalitarianism are the core concepts of Giorgio Agamben’s political philosophy, which intends to describe how power is exercised in the modern State. Biopolitics and Exception in Giorgio Agamben’s Work, Convergences and Divergences with Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt’s Thought. ![]()
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