Author: Keith Ka-fu CHAN, Professor, Center for Judaic and Inter-religious Studies, Shandong University, China.
Abstract:
” series, is fundamentally a kind of political theology in which his analysis of biopolitics is based on the appropriation and the critique of Carl Schmitt’s conception of sovereign exception and Foucault’s conception of governmentality. Political Theology, in Giorgio Agamben’s understanding, is not regarded as the politics of the theological, but rather is closely related to the theology of the political. Furthermore, Agamben, follows the path of Foucault’s method of genealogy, expanding the genealogy of political power into the concept of theological economy, which was regarded as the main political apparatus of western politics. He concludes with the double structure of western governmental machine. Lastly, Agamben’s main concern is to return to the political “inoperative” modality in which the sacred and politics are dislocated and disconnected.
Keywords:
Sovereign exception; Homo Sacer; Economic Apparatus; Inoperative; Giorgio Agamben
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