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2014-09-01

POTENTIALITY, SOVEREIGNTY AND BARE LIFE. A CRITICAL READING OF GIORGIO AGAMBEN

POTENCIALIDAD, SOBERANÍA Y NUDA VIDA.UNA LECTURA CRÍTICA DE GIORGIO AGAMBEN POTENCIALIDADE, SOBERANIA E VIDA NUA. UMA LEITURA CRÍTICA DE GIORGIO AGAMBEN

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https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v63n156.38326

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G Agamben, bare life, biopolitics, sovereignty (en)
G Agamben, bare life, biopolitics, sovereignty (es)
G Agamben, vida nua, biopolítica, soberania (pt)

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  • German Eduardo Primera Villamizar University of Brighton
This article presents a critical account of Agamben's understanding of the logic of sovereignty and of the notion bare life, particularly Agamben's approach to the paradox of sovereignty and its relation to Aristotle's metaphysical category of potentiality. With regards to bare life, it brings together an analysis of the figure of the homo sacer with an account of Agamben's use of paradigms as methodological tools. The first part of the paper argues that Agamben ontologises sovereignty by dramatising the paradox of its structure as im-potentiality. The second part claims that even though an account of Agamben's methodology serves to respond to the different critiques that his notion of bare life has raised, Agamben's notions of sovereignty and of bare life ultimately rely on Schmitt's decisionism.

El artículo hace un recuento crítico de la forma en que Agamben entiende la lógica de la soberanía y la noción de nuda vida, particularmente su abordaje de la paradoja de la soberanía y su relación con la categoría metafísica aristotélica de la potencialidad. Con respecto a la nuda vida, combina el análisis de la figura del homo sacer con un recuento del uso que hace Agamben de los paradigmas como herramientas metodológicas. En la primera parte del ensayo, se argumenta que Agamben ontologiza la soberanía al dramatizar la paradoja de su estructura como im-potencialidad. En la segunda, se afirma que aunque la descripción de la metodología de Agamben sirve para responder a las diferentes críticas suscitadas por su noción de nuda vida, sus nociones de soberanía y de nuda vida dependen, en última instancia, del decisionismo de Schmitt.

Este artigo apresenta a versão crítica do entendimento de Agamben sobre a lógica da soberania e da noção de vida nua. Em particular, a aproximação de Agamben para o paradoxo da soberania e da sua relação com a categoria metafísica da potencialidade de Aristóteles. No que diz respeito à vida nua, reúne uma análise da figura do homo sacer com uma explicação do uso de Agamben de paradigmas como ferramentas metodológicas. Na primeira parte deste artigo, argumenta-se que Agamben ontologiza a soberaniadramatizando o paradoxo de sua estrutura como im-potencialidade. Na segunda parte, será alegado que, apesar de uma explicação da metodologia de Agamben ter servido para responder às diferentes críticas que sua noção de vida nua tenha levantado, em última análise, duas noções da soberania e vida nua de Agamben dependem do "decisionismo schmittiano".

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Primera Villamizar, German Eduardo. «POTENCIALIDAD, SOBERANÍA Y NUDA VIDA.UNA LECTURA CRÍTICA DE GIORGIO AGAMBEN POTENCIALIDADE, SOBERANIA E VIDA NUA. UMA LEITURA CRÍTICA DE GIORGIO AGAMBEN». Ideas Y Valores, vol. 63, n.º 156, septiembre de 2014, pp. 79-99, https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v63n156.38326.