A kivételes állapot destituálásának problémája Agamben messianisztikus archeológiájában

Szigeti, Attila (2025) A kivételes állapot destituálásának problémája Agamben messianisztikus archeológiájában. KELLÉK : FILOZÓFIAI FOLYÓIRAT (74). pp. 127-157. ISSN 1453-7400

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Abstract

The paper summarizes and interprets the philosophical-political archaeology developed by Giorgio Agamben in the Homo Sacer series. According to Agamben, the foundation of the Western legal-biopolitical order follows a paradoxical logic (explained in the first part of the study): the paradoxical anarche of this order is the exclusive inclusion, through the state of exception, of the sovereign violence outside the law. The central interpretative claim of the study is that the consistency of Agamben’s system of thought requires that we distinguish in it between two different conceptual-logical levels: on the one hand, the level of the relation of exception (of exclusive inclusion) between the legal order and the sovereign violence outside the law (or between politics and bare life), and on the other hand, the level of the legal-political binary oppositions (between the legal and anomic elements, and between political and natural life). The second part of the analysis reconstructs both the transcendental and the historical logic of the interaction between these two levels. The final, messianic goal of Agamben’s legal-political archaeology is the destitution of the state of exception itself, that is, the destitution of the sovereign thanatopolitics directed against bare life, and thus, the overcoming of the entire Western legal-political history. The third part of the analysis is devoted to the reconstruction and normative evaluation of this messianic archaeology.

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