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What is Homo Sacer? | Giorgio Agamben | Keyword

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Agamben's Question of Sacredness

On Ben you means text the critique of violence, which you can find and check out on here If you want but a common is really curious about this because there's been a kind of naive assumption that Sacredness is referring to something that is held in high esteem. A homo-saker is someone who is beneath citizenship and so their life means nothing in terms of a Sacrificial order. They are seen as being less than that at the same time they're also someone whose life means nothing even if they're killed.

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