Giorgio Agamben e a guerra civil mundial

Abstract

This research aims to investigate Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Homo Sacer II,2) by Giorgio Agamben, seeking to understand how the reflection on civil war is integrated into the theoretical framework of the Homo Sacer tetralogy and how it contributes to diagnosing the systematic crisis of the juridical state form. Published in 2015, Stasisgathers two essays derived from seminars conducted by Agamben in October 2001 at Princeton University. In the first essay, the philosopher conducts an archaeological investigation of civil war in Ancient Greece, questioning the rigid sep aration between oikos and polis and demonstrating how civil strife dissolves the boundary between the political and the non political. In the second essay, he offers a reinterpretation of the frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, identifying in it na optical illusion that, according to Agamben, reveals the secret of the state form. Based on Agamben’s analyses in the first essays of Stasis, which highlight the inseparability of civil war and politics, our research is guided by the objective of in vestigating the crisis of statehood. In this context, we identify in the Baroque ideal, as proposed by Walter Benjamin, elements of a theory of history underlying the formation of the modern state and the consolidation of the jus publicum europaeum. Finally, in dialogue with Carl Schmitt, we recon struct the concept of war proper to European interstate law, examining its decline and the implications for the emergence of a global civil war that redefined the meanings of the legitimately recog nized enemy, criminal, and in human.