Hōs me and the sense of flesh: a look upon contemporary homo sacer
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-6736.2018.1.29923Keywords:
Hōs me, Sarx, Basar, Homo sacer, Giorgio Agamben, Paul the Apostle,Abstract
With the sentence “For when I am weak, then I am strong,” Paul the Apostle calls people to make a new use of themselves, becoming free as they serve God. Attentive to the problem of the exclusion of modernity, which is the reason for the reappearance of the homo sacer in the present world, Giorgio Agamben reread the Pauline thesis and proposes a new use of theology, inserting at the center of scientific debate the term hōs me (as not) presenting possibilities for the dissolution of political and juridical violence that is, for him, in modern history, responsible for creating tension between civilization and barbarism. In this context homo sacer (naked life) can be understood less as the ultimate expression of finitude and more as the extreme revelation of human power, which justifies the abandonment of the mechanisms that recreate it and, thus, the beginning of a new condition of humanity.
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