The overlapping life-power in the thought of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben

This article attempts to analyze the particular relationship of the overlapping that Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben have established between human life and power. Such that, it is proposed a travel across the two key moments of its production that allow to consider this overlapping: in the case of Agamben, the moment referring to the research "Homo sacer" and, for Foucault, that of his research concerning bio-politics as a decisive event of modernity. Both researches have reappeared, among other aspects, but mainly, in the configuration of human life and its relationship with power. At each of these chosen moments of the philosophers productions, it is analyzed the main notions that compose each research: bare life, "homo sacer", state of exception and "oikonomics", in the first moment, and biopolitics and governmentality, in the second one. Finally, both philosophical formulations are compared such that their reaching and potentialities can be weighted, for they contrast against the analysis they propose. This short analysis on the relationship between life and power in the two philosophers attempts to show the risks to which certain assumptions expose us. Such frequent assumptions support and yield a north to the contemporaneous ideas and political practices.