Para além da soberania: uma investigação a partir da obra de Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

The present research seeks to answer if there is an alternative horizon to sovereignty from the perspective of Giorgio Agamben’s work. We hypothesized that this horizon is represented in a form-of-life that can be exemplified through the figure of the refugee. In the development of the research, we present the implicit problems in sovereignty, which is a paradox that refers to it being at the same time inside and outside the legal system as an exception structure. So that all sovereign power exists in relation to the production of bare life in an anomy zone. The concentration camp is identified as a space par excellence of the exception where the threshold of the legal and political system is exposed in its indistinction. The camp also represents the exhaustion of a political model based on sovereignty to be overcome. Alternatively, Agamben proposes a politic with ontological foundation. Through an archaeology of power, the author will make a critique of the process of constitution of the human being, seeking to overcome its division between zoé and bíos, animal life and human life, which is articulated in the machine of anthropogenesis. In its place Agamben proposes to think of a form-of-life, a life in which his form is not separated from it. This form-oflife is inspired by the Franciscan model of life that seeks to live in such a way that it is not constituted by its relationship with law. As a strategy of resistance, the author proposes inoperative e as a third way of acting in a non-productive or practical way. In order to potentialize the pure human action that does not have a definite purpose, pure means are used through gestures, which as desecration are their examples. The research concludes that the figure of the refugee is that who most closely approximates the new paradigm imagined by Agamben. The figure of the refugee causes a legal indeterminate by inhabiting the threshold of political order representing a questioning to the constituted order itself. And he become to be seen as the constituent paradigm of new emerging human, whose life indicates by its existence that another sovereignty can emerge.