The Omnibus Homo Sacer

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Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse. This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this groundbreaking project. Each volume takes a seemingly obscure and outdated issue as its starting point—an enigmatic figure in Roman law, or medieval debates about God's management of creation, or theories about the origin of the oath—but is always guided by questions with urgent contemporary relevance. The Omnibus Homo Sacer includes: 1.Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 2.1.State of Exception 2.2.Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 2.3.The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath 2.4.The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Glory 2.5.Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty 3.Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive 4.1.The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life 4.2.The Use of Bodies Cover CONTENTS I. HOMO SACER: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Contents Introduction PART ONE: THE LOGIC OF SOVEREIGNTY 1. The Paradox of Sovereignty 2. ‘Nomos Basileus’ 3. Potentiality and Law 4. Form of Law Threshold PART TWO: HOMO SACER 1. Homo Sacer 2. The Ambivalence of the Sacred 3. Sacred Life 4. ‘Vitae Necisque Potestas’ 5. Sovereign Body and Sacred Body 6. The Ban and the Wolf Threshold PART THREE: THE CAMP AS BIOPOLITICAL PARADIGM OF THE MODERN 1. The Politicization of Life 2. Biopolitics and the Rights of Man 3. Life That Does Not Deserve to Live 4. ‘Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People’ 5. VP 6. Politicizing Death 7. The Camp as the ‘Nomos’ of the Modern Threshold Bibliography II, 1. STATE OF EXCEPTION Contents Translator’s Note 1. The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government 2. Force-of-Law 3. Iustitium 4. Gigantomachy Concerning a Void 5. Feast, Mourning, Anomie 6. Auctoritas and Potestas Bibliography II, 2. STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm Contents Foreword 1. Stasis 2. Leviathan and Behemoth Bibliography II, 3. THE SACRAMENT OF LANGUAGE: An Archaeology of the Oath Contents Translator’s Note Abbreviations The Sacrament of Language Bibliography II, 4. THE KINGDOM AND THE GLORY: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government Contents Translator’s Note Preface 1. The Two Paradigms Threshold 2. The Mystery of the Economy Threshold 3. Being and Acting Threshold 4. The Kingdom and the Government Threshold 5. The Providential Machine Threshold 6. Angelology and Bureaucracy Threshold 7. The Power and the Glory Threshold 8. The Archaeology of Glory Threshold Appendix: The Economy of the Moderns 1. The Law and the Miracle 2. The Invisible Hand Bibliography II, 5. OPUS DEI: An Archaeology of Duty Contents Translator’s Note Preface 1. Liturgy and Politics Threshold 2. From Mystery to Effect Threshold 3. A Genealogy of Office Threshold 4. The Two Ontologies; or, How Duty Entered into Ethics Threshold Bibliography III. REMNANTS OF AUSCHWITZ: The Witness and the Archive Contents Preface 1. The Witness 2. The Muselmann 3. Shame, or On the Subject 4. The Archive and Testimony Bibliography IV, 1. THE HIGHEST POVERTY: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life Contents Translator’s Note Preface PART ONE: RULE AND LIFE 1. Birth of the Rule 2. Rule and Law 3. Flight from the World and Constitution Threshold PART TWO: LITURGY AND RULE 1. Regula Vitae 2. Orality and Writing 3. The Rule as a Liturgical Text Threshold PART THREE: FORM-OF-LIFE 1. The Discovery of Life 2. Renouncing Law 3. Highest Poverty and Use Threshold Bibliography IV, 2. THE USE OF BODIES Contents Translator’s Note Prefatory Note Prologue PART ONE: THE USE OF BODIES 1. The Human Being without Work 2. Chresis 3. Use and Care 4. The Use of the World 5. Use-of-Oneself 6. Habitual Use 7. The Animate Instrument and Technology 8. The Inappropriable Intermezzo I PART TWO: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY 1. Ontological Apparatus 2. Theory of Hypostases 3. Toward a Modal Ontology Intermezzo II III. FORM-OF-LIFE 1. Life Divided 2. A Life Inseparable from Its Form 3. Living Contemplation 4. Life Is a Form Generated by Living 5. Toward an Ontology of Style 6. Exile of One Alone with One Alone 7. “That’s How We Do It” 8. Work and Inoperativity 9. The Myth of Er Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Destituent Potential Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credits