A história do povo das estrelas: a eclusão, da exclusão da exclusão – Holocausto e (IN)visibilidade do povo cigano –a biopolítica de Giorgio Agamben: um perpassar no olhar de Foucault e Arendt

Abstract

The central theme of this article is to present some ideas about Agamben's biopolitics, considering the concepts of sovereign power, state of exception, nude life, homo sacer and the concentration camp and the disappearance of the naked life of the gypsies, as current biopolitical paradigms. To this end, some authors such as Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin, who influenced the Italian author in the elaboration of his philosophical and political conceptions in the Western world, will be brief. Thus, the use of these agambenian notions as instruments for (re) thinking critically the current Law, especially the discourse of Human and Fundamental Rights that flirts paradoxically with the paradigm of contemporary biopolitics. Therefore, in this uncertainty I will give light to extol a great contribution to the understanding of the concept of biopolitics in the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, more precisely in his groundbreaking work of 1995 and inaugurator of the series Homo Sacer, whose title bears the same name: Homo Sacer : The Sovereign Power and the Naked Life. In this way, it is important to demonstrate through a logical and topological structure the great functioning of biopolitics intertwining in the concepts of modernity, thus capable of soberly revealing contemporary political spaces.