告别圣人?阿甘本的冠状病毒评论中的君主权力与裸生

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW LAW AND CRITIQUE Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-26 DOI:10.1007/s10978-021-09314-x
Sergei Prozorov
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文章论述了乔治-阿甘本(Giorgio Agamben)作为其政治思想范例对 "科维德-19 "大流行病全球治理的批判性评论。虽然阿甘本的评论被批评为夸张和阴谋论,但这些评论源于他从 "圣人"(Homo Sacer)系列第一卷开始形成的概念群。这个概念群的核心是主权权力与赤裸生命这两个概念之间的关系,阿甘本将这两个概念在 "圣人"(homo sacer)这一形象中的衔接从古代一直追溯到现代。我们将证明,由于这些概念属于不同的层面,分别是经验的和超验的,阿甘本以一种有问题的方式将它们结合在一起,因此任何这种衔接都是不可能的。他关于主权例外状态的论述将多种经验例外状态坍缩为不同例外状态与正常状态之间的无差别地带,然后将这种无差别地带提升为政治本身可理解性的超验条件。与此相反,"赤裸生命 "这一概念原本被假定为积极生命形式的可能性的超越性条件,却被重新塑造为一个经验性的形象,其唯一的形式就是形式的缺失。我们的结论是,应该放弃这种有问题的表述,转而强调主权权力与赤裸生命之间的非相关性,这为阿甘本思想中仍然模糊不清的抵抗与变革的可能性提供了条件。
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A Farewell to Homo Sacer? Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Agamben's Coronavirus Commentary.

The article addresses Giorgio Agamben's critical commentary on the global governance of the Covid-19 pandemic as a paradigm of his political thought. While Agamben's comments have been criticized as exaggerated and conspiratorial, they arise from the conceptual constellation that he has developed starting from the first volume of his Homo Sacer series. At the centre of this constellation is the relation between the concepts of sovereign power and bare life, whose articulation in the figure of homo sacer Agamben traces from the Antiquity to the present. We shall demonstrate that any such articulation is impossible due to the belonging of these concepts to different planes, respectively empirical and transcendental, which Agamben brings together in a problematic fashion. His account of the sovereign state of exception collapses a plurality of empirical states of exception into a zone of indistinction between different exceptional states and the normal state and then elevates this very indistinction to the transcendental condition of intelligibility of politics as such. Conversely, the notion of bare life, originally posited as the transcendental condition of possibility of positive forms of life, is recast as an empirical figure, whose sole form is the absence of form. We conclude that this problematic articulation should be abandoned for a theory that rather highlights the non-relation between sovereign power and bare life, which conditions the possibility of resistance and transformation that remains obscure in Agamben's thought.

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期刊介绍: Law and Critique is the prime international critical legal theory journal. It has been published for 20 years and is associated with the Critical Legal Conference. Law and Critique covers all aspects of legal theory, jurisprudence and substantive law that are approached from a critical perspective. Law and Critique has introduced into legal scholarship a variety of schools of thought, such as postmodernism; feminism; queer theory; critical race theory; literary approaches to law; psychoanalysis; law and the humanities; law and aesthetics and post-colonialism. Postmodern jurisprudence, law and aesthetics and law and psychoanalysis were pioneered in Law and Critique which remains the most authoritative international source for these schools of thought. Law and Critique is keen to translate and incorporate non-English critical legal thought. More specifically, Law and Critique encourages the submission of articles in the areas of critical legal theory and history, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, law and post-colonialism; postmodern jurisprudence, law and aesthetics; legal phenomenology; and law and autopoiesis. Past special issues include: ''Critical Legal Education''; ''The Gender of Law''; ''Law and Postmodernism''; ''Law and Literature''; ''Law and Post-colonialism'', ''Law and Theatre''; ''Jean-Luc Nancy and Law''; ''Agamben and Law''. Law and Critique is ranked amongst the top 20 per cent of law journals by the Australian Research Council.
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