Giorgio Agamben Quotes on Politics
Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose Homo Sacer project, begun in 1995, has reshaped contemporary political philosophy through a radical genealogy of sovereignty, bare life, and the state of exception. This page collects quotes attributed to Giorgio Agamben on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Giorgio Agamben:
“The state of exception has become the rule.”
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Attributed to Giorgio Agamben:
“The camp is the nomos of the modern.”
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Attributed to Giorgio Agamben:
“Sovereignty is the structure that includes life by excluding it.”
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“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.”
State of Exception(2005) | Chapter Four, p. 64.