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- Title
KUTSAL İNSAN: GIORGIO AGAMBEN'İN EGEMENLİK ANLATISINDA KURBANSAL DURUM.
- Authors
AKSOY, Mete Ulaş
- Abstract
In this study, we attempt to put Agamben's homo sacer conceptualization within a critical perspective. Agamben's political philosophy, which contributes important insights into the invisible dimensions of sovereignty, gives a special place for homo sacer. However, even if this concept plays an important role in elucidating the certain dimensions of authority relations (violence-law relationship), it is hardly a good attitude to permit it to monopolize every dimension of authority relations. This study, which tries to call attention to the troubles of such an attitude, gives special importance to the concept of sacrifice and claims that Agamben is at pains to purify authority relations and sovereignty from the symbolic elements. In the first part of the study, Agamben's homo sacer conceptualization is presented. In the second, the inconsistencies and troubles in this conceptualization are highlighted. In the last part, it is claimed that Agamben's account of sovereignty cannot transcend the logic of sacrifice.
- Publication
Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (FLSF), 2016, Issue 22, p16
- ISSN
1306-9535
- Publication type
Article