Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

In this major work by the renowned Italian philosopher, an obscure figure in Roman law poses significant questions about the nature of power.

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, challenges modern conceptions of society and the individual's place within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a time when they have lost their fundamen...