Fiction and groundlessness. Schmitt and Benjamin in Giorgio Agamben's Homo sacer project

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ashf.92452
Keywords: fiction, sovereignty, Agamben, violence

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 This paper reviews Agamben's arguments regarding the groundlessness of law, its intrinsic violence and the centrality of fiction in the first two volumes of Homo sacer, Sovereign Power and the Bare Life and State of Exception. Additionally it studies the diagnostic power of Agamben's appropriation of Schmitt's thesis, as well as the critique he deploys of its theoretical limits from Benjamin.

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Luis Periáñez Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Graduado en filosofía y Máster en Estudios Avanzados de Antropología social y cultural por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, es investigador en formación (FPU) en el departamento de Filosofía y Sociedad de la misma casa.

Ha publicado recientemente Si esto es un cuerpo: de la ontología política a una ética posible (https://doi.org/10.5209/ASHF.59666), Del componente crítico de la ontología hermenéutica (https://doi.org/10.5209/asem.65856), Variaciones hermenéuticas de la epistemología de Canguilhem (https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201913328) y Bartleby o el organismo enfermo. Notas críticas sobre la ontología y la prospectiva del sujeto ético en Agamben (https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.63068).

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Published
2024-05-28
How to Cite
Periáñez Llorente L. (2024). Fiction and groundlessness. Schmitt and Benjamin in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo sacer project. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 41(2), 355-368. https://doi.org/10.5209/ashf.92452
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Vol. 41 No. 2 (2024)
Section
Estudios

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