Biopolitics, state of exception, and power in Giorgio Agamben

Starting from the theme elaborated by Hobbes of the necessity of a passage from the multitudes to a people to permit the foundation of an Absolute state, Giorgio Agamben wonders whether one may establish human power from the starting point of God's "glory" alone, Le. the absolute affirmation of Ills powerlessness Agamben's originality rests in turning such a theological notion into a political paradigm derived from Me legal notions of both Homo sacer and sacralio