HOMO SACER Sovereign Power and Bare Life Translated by Giorgio Agamben Daniel Heller-Roazen Stanford CaliforniaHomo Sacer Svercign Power and Bare Life was orginally published at Homo sacer Il poteesuranoe a nuda vita, © 1995 Giulio Einaudi ediore sp. Stanford University Press Stanford, California, © 1998 by Leland Stanford Junioe Univers Printed in the United States of car data appeae Contents Pocentility and Law Form of Law Threshold Homo Sacer The Ambivalence of the Sacred Sacred Life “Vitae Necisque Potestas red Body Sovereign Body ‘The Ban and the Wolf ‘Threshold 30 2» 9 6 nm ra a o 04st $2 $3 Sa Ss 86 S7 Contents PART THREE: THE CAMP AS B10} PARADIGM OF THE MODERN rieaL ife Biopolitics and the Rights of Man Life That Does Not Deserve to Live Po Form to the Life of a People’ vp ing Death The Camp as the ‘Nomos' of the Modern Threshold Bibliography Index of Names 9 126 136 44 154 160 16 181 189 197 ‘Das Recht ha kein Dass fir sic, sein Wesenvielmehr ist das Leben der Menschen selbst, von einer Sete angeschen —Savigny Law has no existence for itself rather its essence lis, ftom ace spective, im the very life of men, lea in ire eiviais,cviumque off ndis opus es, non ‘quiders ur dssolvacur civics, sed ramen ut ranquam dissolua considerecur, i et, ue quali sic maar humana, quibus rebus 2d ) thar wee ri, in what nd inc a well grounded Sate Buteté moi he encale he cs 288n,auté ce tha ~ Sains Ps And the h was ordained to life, | found co be tuneo dea