Abstract

BERRIO PUERTA, Ayder. The Inclusive-exclusion of the Bare Life in the Biopolitical Model of Giorgio Agamben: Some Reflections on the Intersection between Democracy and Totalitarianism. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2010, n.36, pp.11-38. ISSN 0121-5167.

By taking distance from biopower and biopolitics proposed in the mid-seventies by Michel Foucault, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben comes to a personal biopolitical conception of legal and philosophical slope rather than historical, based on inclusive-exclusion of biological life (bare life) of the human being, as a primal substrate of western politics. The relevant aspect of Agamben’s thesis lies in the ability of the inclusive-exclusion of bare life, to show a certain level of indistinctness or contiguity between democracy and totalitarianism, in terms of their practices of management over the lives of individuals and populations, without for it, be unknown or disturb their antagonistic philosophical assumptions. This article aims to offer a critical approach to the implications that bears, for both, theory and political philosophy, the thesis proposed by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, as the support of its biopolitical model. Finally, this article aims to a critical reading, not cyclical, compared to the “new” authors and political theories for our academia.

Keywords : Agamben; Giorgio; Biopower; Biopolitics; Liberal Democracy; Totalitarianism.

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