THE OM NIBUS HOMO SACER MERIDIAN Crossing Aesthetics T H E O M N I B U S HOMO SACER G I O R G I O A G A M B E N STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. This book was negotiated through Agnese Incisa Agenzia Letteraria, Torino. Since this page cannot accommodate all the copyright notices, the Credits constitutes an extension of the copyright page. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available at the Library of Congress ISBN 9781503603059 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 9781503603158 (electronic) Designed by Bruce Lundquist Typeset at Stanford University Press in 11/15.5 Adobe Garamond Pro CONTENTS I. HOMO SACER: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 1 II, 1. STATE OF EXCEPTION 161 II, 2. STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 247 II, 3. THE SACRAMENT OF LANGUAGE: An Archaeology of the Oath 295 II, 4. THE KINGDOM AND THE GLORY: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government 363 II, 5. OPUS DEI: An Archaeology of Duty 643 III. REMNANTS OF AUSCHWITZ: The Witness and the Archive 761 IV, 1. THE HIGHEST POVERTY: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life 881 IV, 2. THE USE OF BODIES 1011 vi CONTENTS Index 1291 Credits 1323 THE OMNIBUS HOMO SACER HOMO SACER I H O M O S A C E R Sovereign Power and Bare Life