HOMO SACER AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE NAKED LIFE. AGAMBEN AND THE "CORRECTION" OF FOUCAULT

This paper will examine the Agambenian thesis of 'naked life' in relation to sovereign power. In particular, the article aims to compare the central thesis of Agamben's "Homo sacer project with the notions of Biopolitics and Biopower proposed by Michel Foucault. In "Homo sacer" (the project and the book of Agamben) the exclusion/inclusion of bare life in politics represents, according to Agamben, a "correction" of Foucault. However, its development goes in the direction of an Ontology.