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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Reading Toni Morrison: Rethinking Race and Subjectivity with Giorgio Agamben and Joan Copjec

Salazar, Gabriela Marie 01 January 2017 (has links)
The school of thought articulated by critical theorists Giorgio Agamben and Joan Copjec differ from each other in methodology, approach, and language. Yet, both Agamben and Copjec each write to reject positivist notions of ethics, which each theorist identifies as rooted in the same ideological apparatuses that propagate exclusionary and violent actions. By turning away from pre-given ethics and ideology, these writers attempt to delineate why these philosophies have been the vehicle of violence and racial oppression, and reiterate the importance of turning away from such thought in order for the subject to conceptualize a new way of being and relating to others that combats dominant ideology. Agamben's theoretical concept of homo sacer that lies at the center of his philosophical project, and Copjec's Lacanian understanding of the subject as inherently ruptured, both delineate subjectivity, as well as the concepts of race and racism in novel ways. Using these theorists to read Morrison's novels illustrates the critical concepts outlined by these two thinkers. In the first chapter of this thesis, I plan to outline Agamben's notion of homo sacer, and Copjec's theorizing of the subject as inherently ruptured. I employ Morrison's piece of literary criticism, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, to demonstrate how Morrison's literary and intellectual project as a writer also aims to refigure subjectivity, illustrating and expanding upon Agamben and Copjec's work. In the second chapter, I will move on to discuss Agamben's political philosophy and concept of homo sacer, analyzing Morrison's novels, A Mercy, and Home to demonstrate how her work illustrates and expands upon Agamben's analysis of biopolitics. Lastly, in the third chapter of this thesis, I place Morrison in dialogue with Copjec, demonstrating how Morrison's characters illustrate the notion of a ruptured subject, and why it is important to read her work through this lens. I aim to demonstrate how Morrison's characters expand upon the notions of race, femininity, and subjectivity as conceived by Copjec. The ultimate goal of this thesis is to delineate why it is beneficial to place these three writers in dialogue with one another to analyze notions of racial identity, subjectivity, violence, and trauma.
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Topologies of abandon : locating life in the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben

Layzelle, Luke George January 2017 (has links)
In the forty years separating Stanzas and the recently published final instalment of the Homo Sacer series, The Use of Bodies, Agamben has regularly turned to topological figures in pursuing his critical analyses of the biopolitical horizon of modernity. Topologies of Abandon provides the first sustained analysis of the topological orientation of Agamben's work, developing an alternative spatial genealogy of a series of key concepts and figures in Agamben's thinking. The thesis considers a series of conceptual topoi explored by Agamben and argues that his theoretical project consists of a series of interrelated investigations into the configuration of place and localisation: the ontological space of the exception, the location of the subject within language, and the place of life in contemporary configurations of power. In my analysis of each of these topologies I argue against the common conception of Agamben's work as providing a pessimistic and negative diagnosis of contemporary forms of biopolitical governance from which there exists little hope of emancipation. Paradoxically, the potentiality that marks Agamben's utopic topos of life is found in the place of an abandonment, and it is by exploring the negative and privative topologies of abandon in Agamben's work that the thesis seeks to re-orient future readings of the largely misunderstood affirmative dimension of this philosophical project. The thesis provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of Agamben's use of topological figures throughout his body of work. Considering Agamben's methodological use of paradigms, signatures, and archaeology from a topological perspective, the thesis reconsiders the relationship between the biopolitical studies of Agamben and Foucault on this basis. The project situates Agamben's topological interest within the context of a wider critical-philosophical turn to the field in the twentieth-century, showing that Agamben's work is influenced by the topological current informing philosophies of the lifeworld and the metalogical inquiries of structuralism. The thesis also reconsiders Agamben's relationship with the thought of his former teacher Heidegger in terms of the two thinkers' shared interest in a ‘topology of being'. Following the topological thread running throughout Agamben's oeuvre, I demonstrate how from his earliest works Agamben seeks to map out an affirmative topos of life that perforates the surfaces and limits of its philosophical, juridical, and political determinations.
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A life undivided : on Agamben's use of Heidegger and Benjamin /

Short, Jonathan. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 342-348). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR46012
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Våldet, Rätten och Rättvisan : En kommentar till Walter Benjamins Försök till en kritik av våldet

Sandberg, Jakob January 2015 (has links)
This paper is an attempt to re-read Walter Benjamin’s essay “critique of violence” by separating what we here presume being its three-part core or axis, namely Right (rätt, as in Law), Justice (rättvisa) and Violence (våld), and then make an inquiry into the relationship between them, or, to what extent these three parts relate to each other. The method for doing so is at first a close-up reading of Benjamin’s text, where the core parts are being mentioned. Thereafter we will take a look at some of the most prominent attempts to read Benjamin to see to what extent their interpretation is compatible to ours. At last, in the concluding part of our paper, a suggestion with a shade of psychoanalysis of how to interpret the essay will be presented, together with a clarification of the three notions we did set out to investigate in the beginning. The aim of this paper is both to make Benjamin’s essay clearer, but also to make more stable ground for a new way of looking at Law and Justice and the relationship between them.
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To live and to think otherwise rethinking biopolitics /

Kesgin, Hande. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Stony Brook University, 2008. / This official electronic copy is part of the DSpace Stony Brook theses & dissertations collection maintained by the University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives on behalf of the Stony Brook Graduate School. It is stored in the SUNY Digital Institutional Repository and can be accessed through the website. Presented to the Stony Brook University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy; as recommended and accepted by the candidate's degree sponsor, the Dept. of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references.
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Biopolítica em Giorgio Agambem: reflexão crítica sobre a legitimidade do Poder Soberano

Valerio, Raphael Guazzelli [UNESP] 01 October 2011 (has links) (PDF)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-10-01Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:54:38Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 valerio_rg_me_mar.pdf: 626239 bytes, checksum: 836c115e2860a337908c2489d098791b (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Pretende-se mapear o conceito de biopolítica na obra do filósofo italiano Giorgio Agamben, mais precisamente em seu trabalho de 1995, inaugurador da série Homo Sacer, cujo título leva o mesmo nome: Homo Sacer: O Poder Soberano e a Vida Nua. Valendo-se do pensamento de Michel Foucault e Hannah Arendt de um lado, e Walter Benjamin e Carl Schmitt de outro, Agamben faz recuar o conceito de biopolítica às fundações da política ocidental. Importa mostrar como estrutura, lógica e topologia de funcionamento a biopolítica anima as relações políticas desde seu fundamento e que a modernidade foi capaz de desvelar, transformando radicalmente os espaços políticos contemporâneos. É sabido que este conceito foi forjado por Foucault e que em seu pensamento ele funciona como uma modalidade de poder, porém em Agamben ele aparece de forma central, algo como um conceito base de onde emergirão outros quatro: homo sacer, poder soberano, estado de exceção e campo de concentração. A política moderna, ao suscitar um permanente estado de exceção, isola e produz a mera vida e toma para si o direito de administrá-la. Nesta estrutura de funcionamento temos como paradigma de espaço político o campo de concentração / It is intended to map the concept of biopolitics in the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, specifically his work in 1995, Homo Sacer inaugurate the series, whose title bears the same name: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Drawing on the thought of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt on the one hand, and Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt on the other, Agamben is the concept of biopolitics back the foundations of western politics. It should show how the structure, logic, topology and function animates the biopolitical relations policies since its foundation and that modernity was able to uncover, radically transforming political spaces contemporaries. It is known that this concept was coined by Foucault in his thinking and that it functions as a form of power, but it appears in Agamben centrally, something like a basic concept from which emerge four: homo sacer, sovereign power, status exception and a concentration camp. Modern politics by raising a permanent state of exception and produces a mere isolated life and takes to itself the right to manage it, we have this structure functioning as a paradigm of political space the concentration camp
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Soberania e biopolítica em Giorgio Agamben

Brum Neto, Benjamim January 2016 (has links)
Orientador: André Duarte / Dissertaçao (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia. Defesa: Curitiba, 15/12/2016 / Inclui referências : f. 128-134 / Resumo: O presente trabalho pretende abordar o vínculo entre soberania e biopolítica na reflexão de Agamben, a qual investiga criticamente a tradição política Ocidental. Soberania e biopolítica não são, para Agamben, meras formulações teóricas consagradas, situadas temporalmente, mas estão implicadas em uma estrutura metafísica que opera de maneira absoluta em toda história política do Ocidente por meio da captura do vivente e da produção da vida nua. Nosso objetivo, portanto, é o de tornar inteligível a forma como essa vida nua - a vida do homo sacer - é colocada como, ao mesmo tempo, produto originário e fundamento da ordem política no Ocidente a partir da interrogação sobre o ponto oculto de intersecção entre o modelo jurídico-institucional e o modelo biopolítico do poder. No primeiro capítulo abordaremos o conceito de soberania a partir da tradição política com que Agamben dialoga, com destaque para Hobbes, Kelsen e Schmitt. Como resultado desse primeiro capítulo teremos a concepção de vida matável como fundamento da comunidade política, bem como uma primeira aproximação da estrutura da soberania, que se define pela exceção ou bando. No segundo capítulo nos deteremos sobre o conceito de biopolítica a partir da relação existente entre o pensamento de Agamben e o de Foucault, extraindo desse debate tanto o contraste entre as abordagens da biopolítica entre ambos os autores, quanto suas divergências e convergências metodológicas; além disso, lançaremos mão de uma interpretação biopolítica do trabalho de Arendt para a compreensão tanto do diagnóstico da politização da vida quanto da reversibilidade entre democracia de massa e totalitarismo. No terceiro capítulo aprofundaremos as noções mais essenciais do trabalho de Agamben, com destaque para o paradoxo da soberania, a estrutura de bando, a relação entre linguagem e direito, bem como anunciaremos, na esteira de Agamben, a necessidade de um pensamento para além da relação entre ato e potência, modelo que emprestou à tradição Ocidental a estrutura de bando. Por fim, delinearemos algumas considerações a respeito da noção de homo sacer, dando destaque para a crítica feita por Agamben à teoria da ambiguidade do sacro. Ao final da dissertação pretendemos ter esclarecido de que forma Agamben desenvolve suas reflexões a partir do fio condutor da inclusão originária da vida no direito, isto é, pela relação indissociável entre vida e direito, sacralidade e exceção. Palavras-chave: Agamben, soberania, biopolítica, direito, política. / Résumé: Le présent travail se donne pour but l'approche du lien entre souveraineté et biopolitique dans la réflexion d'Agamben, laquelle s'oriente vers une recherche critique de la tradition politique Occidentale. Souveraineté et biopolitique ne sont pas, selon Agamben, des simples formulations théoriques longtemps établies, situées temporellement, mais sont impliquées dans une structure métaphysique qui opère de façon absolue dans toute l'histoire politique de l'Occident à travers la capture du vivant et la production de la vie nue. Notre objectif est celui de rendre intelligible la façon dont cette vie nue - la vie de l'homo sacer - est, au même temps, mise comme produit originaire et fondement de l'ordre politique dans l'Occident, à partir de l'interrogation sur le point caché de l'intersection entre le modèle juridico-institutionnel et le modèle biopolitique de pouvoir. Dans le premier chapitre on traitera du concept de souveraineté à partir de la tradition politique avec laquelle Agamben établie un dialogue, notamment avec Hobbes, Kelsen et Schmitt. Comme résultat de ce premier chapitre on aura la conception de vie tuable comme fondement de la communauté politique, ainsi comme une première approche de la structure de la souveraineté qui se définit par l'exception ou le band. Dans le second chapitre on concentrera sur le concept de biopolitique à partir du rapport entre la pensée d'Agamben et celle de Foucault, ce qui nous permettra d'en extraire tant un contraste entre les approches de la biopolitique entre les deux auteurs, comme ses divergences et convergences méthodologiques; en outre, on fera appel à une interprétation biopolitique des oeuvres d'Arendt pour comprendre tant le diagnostique de la politisation de la vie comme celui de la réversibilité entre démocratie de masse et totalitarisme. Dans le troisième chapitre on approfondira les notions les plus essentielles du travail d'Agamben, en soulignant le paradoxe de la souveraineté, la structure de band, le rapport entre langage et droit, aussi comme il sera annoncé, dans la foulée d'Agamben, la nécessité d'une pensée au-délà du rapport entre puissance et acte, modèle qui a prêté à la tradition Occidental la structure de band. Finalement, on tracera quelques considérations sur l'homo sacer, en soulignant les critiques adressées par Agamben à la théorie de l'ambiguïté du sacre. À la fin de cette dissertation on envisage avoir éclairé de quelle façon Agamben développe ses réflexions à partir du fil conducteur de l'inclusion originaire de la vie dans le droit, c'est-à-dire, par le rapport indissociable entre vie et droit, sacralité e exception. Mots-clés : Giorgio Agamben; souveraineté; biopolitique; droit; politique.
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Estado de exceção em Giorgio Agamben

Pontel, Evandro January 2014 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-17T01:01:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000453107-Texto+Completo-0.pdf: 786257 bytes, checksum: d1f48d70f9b1683a7bae6bfccf087446 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / This study investigates the notion of state of exception in Giorgio Agamben as an apparatus that captures the life of the citizen through its own suspension, an empty space of law, a zone of anomie in which all legal determinations come into a zone of indistinctness. The theorization of this legal institute is developed in a perspective of an genealogical and paradigmatic approach in order to situate it on the threshold of the contemporary world and its political consequences and what may mean to act politically today. In order to analyze modern theories of state, the italian thinker employs an artifice of Roman law: the iustitium – ‘the suspension, stoppage of law’, that produced a legal vacuum. In the Modernity, the state of exception operates continuously with multidimensional forms in which the concentration field is the modern paradigm of the nomos an the “bare life reaches its maximum indeterminacy”. In the state of exception which unites norm and life, that applies disapplying itself, produces an anomie zone, the challenge is to paralyze the biopolitical machine of the state of exception which determines life on multiple levels, since the earliest eras of Western civilization. / Este estudo investiga o estado de exceção em Giorgio Agamben enquanto dispositivo que, por meio do direito captura a vida do cidadão, pela de sua própria suspensão, um espaço vazio de direito, uma zona de anomia em que todas as determinações legais entram em uma zona de indistinção. A teorização desse instituto jurídico é desenvolvida na perspectiva de uma abordagem genealógica e paradigmática em vista de situá-lo no limiar da contemporaneidade, suas consequências em âmbito político, e o que ainda pode significar agir politicamente na atualidade. Ao analisar as modernas teorias de estado, o pensador italiano emprega um artifício do direito romano: o iustitium, ‘suspensão, paralisação da lei’, que em seu tempo produzia um vácuo jurídico. Na modernidade, o estado de exceção continua a operar de modo permanente sob formas multidimensionais, nas quais o campo de concentração é o paradigma moderno do nomos e a ‘vida nua atinge sua máxima indeterminação’. No estado de exceção que une a norma e a vida, que se aplica se desaplicando, pela força-de-lei, produz uma zona anomia, o desafio reside em paralisar a máquina biopolítica do estado de exceção, que determina a vida nas múltiplas esferas, desde os tempos primitivos da civilização ocidental.
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"Soberanía y bio-política": (Notas para una política del gesto en el pensamiento de G. Agamben)

Karmy Bolton, Rodrigo January 2005 (has links)
“Soberanía” es la palabra que atraviesa de polo a polo la presente tesis. ¿En qué sentido habrá que entender el “y” de su título? En principio, no como una relación al modo de una conjunción entre elementos diferentes primariamente aislados entre sí. El “y” denotaría, ante todo, la relación originaria –es decir, la relación que es condición de todas las otras relaciones posibles- en cual toda soberanía constituiría, en sí misma, bio-política. Aparece, entonces, “bio-política”, concepto que, a la luz de las investigaciones de Foucault, no ha dejado de aparecer en la literatura filosófica contemporánea. Pero ¿por qué el guión que separa “bios” de “política”? En primer lugar para advertir que lo que en la soberanía está en juego es ante todo, la “forma de vida”. En segundo lugar que, a su vez, no habría política –al menos política en Occidente- sin esta implicación y, en tercer lugar que lo que se trataría de atender es, precisamente, esa relación que liga, de modo indisoluble, “forma de vida” y política. ¿En qué consistiría ese nexo? Es lo que, a continuación, se pretende explicar.
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Reinterpreting (bio)Politics: Potentiality, Profanation, and Play in the Thought of Giorgio Agamben

Brenn, Matt A. January 2013 (has links)
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