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Normalized Exceptions and Totalized Potentials: Violence, Sovereignty and War in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes and Giorgio Agamben
2015
Sociologičeskoe Obozrenie
This study seeks to critically explore the link between sovereignty, violence and war in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer series and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. From a brief rereading of Leviathan's main arguments that explicitly revolves around the Aristotelian distinction between actuality/ potentiality, it will conclude that Hobbesian pre-contractual violence is primarily based on what Hobbes terms "anticipatory reason" and the problem of future contingency. Relying on Foucauldian insights, it
doi:10.17323/1728-192x-2015-4-44-76
fatcat:6miuqzqt3bhornirespn4k6qzu