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Categories of Life: The Status of the Camp in Derrida and Agamben
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy
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July 1, 2008
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Abstract
This essay is an exploration of the relationship between Agamben's 1995 text, Homo Sacer, and Derrida's 1992 "Force of Law" essay. Agamben attempts to show that the camp, as the topological space of the state of exception, has become the biopolitical paradigm for modernity. He draws this conclusion on the basis of a distinction, which he finds in an essay by Walter Benjamin, between categories of life, with the "pro-tagonist" of the work being what he calls homo sacer, or bare life-life that is stripped of its humanity and value. Five years earlier, in 1990, Derrida had given a lecture at UCLA (later published in its entirety as "The Force of Law") in which he had analyzed the very ...
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