A Question without an Answer from the 20th Century: A Preliminary Consideration of Fieldwork on 'The State of Exception'
| Jazyk: | japonština |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | 中央大社会科学研究所年報. 25:79-96 |
| ISSN: | 1343-2125 |
| Popis: | application/pdf This paper examines the relationships between societal change in the 20th century and contemporary politics focusing on Giorgio Agamben’s seminal work Homo Sacer （1995） and associates its findings with our research project “A comparative analysis of a nascent moment in a borderland.” First, an allegory of Elie Wiesel is introduced to show that tremendous tragedies such as the Holocaust in the previous century impede contemporary life and that these conditions remain open. Next, this paper considers Giorgio Agamben’s insight into “the state of exception” and distinguishes four stages that transform politics into bio-politics and transform citizens into a “bare life.” In particular, the establishment of the concentration camp was a critical step that enabled a temporary state of exception to become a persistent space of exception. Finally, it is argued that while material walls and detention centers focusing on illegal immigrants and refugees proliferated during this century, especially in borderlands, local people in these areas question what governments declare a threat. |
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