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A doua biopolitică şi "viaţa dezgolită"
The Second "Bio-policy" and "Naked Life"

Author(s): Cristina Avrigeanu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a signal and an analysis of a bio - politic concept: the so-called “naked” or “nude” life. Starting from Giorgio Agamben concept the analysis is focused on the possibility of using this theory for studying the communist life. The author tries to give an answer at the question: “Are the (communism specific) humiliations, the populism, demagogy, manipulation, power abuses (still present in the post-communist societies) “denuding” our life?”

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 108
  • Page Range: 37-41
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian