Relações do campo de concentração e violência no contemporâneo: política, direito e exceção em Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

by means of this modest work we try to address some of the most important concepts of the work of the italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and more specifically as his thesis on the relations of the concentration camp constitute the place of the city as the true paradigm of the modern. In the discussion of points such as the state of exception, the position of homo sacer in the structuring conjuncture of politics and law, and the incidence of these forms in the contemporary world, we try to insert in the discussion what Agamben considers most important to think modernity: what (still and insistently) remains of Auschwitz. Therefore, we raise important questions that focus on our own being and the daily relationships that it establishes with others in society, inscribing in violence and force-of-law the (im)possibility of self-criticism necessary for us, inserted in a reality evidently simulated, which leads us to believe in a reality that is far from the real reality, in a world in which democracies and their humanistic principles have buried all totalitarianism and filled the gaps that man's inhumanization caused without ever going through the necessary discussions about the which "subtracts" from Auschwitz. Biopolitics, paradox of sovereignty, governability, tanatopolitics. Far from appearing to be distant concepts in our daily lives, these terms are, in fact, revealed as ideals contained in sovereign power that we deal with every day, transposed into formulations that differ from living reality, in which democracy and its human principles conceal the real in the face of what is left of Auschwitz, a gap which we ignore and which we attempt to displace in our discussions, leading to incomplete responses to incomplete lives in an incomplete society within an equally incomplete worldwide contentment that insists on showing itself as already made, complete and finished, in which to ignore is more effective than to understand and in which to shout the dignity of the human person is more important than to understand who really is human in the present reality and under what conditions he is captured in all these relations of the concentration camp, putting in question our own life as life itself – naked life – and leading us to perhaps the most important question so that we must try to open the doors of the house of our conformism and pretended security and finally to see the gaps that Auschwitz left in the human itself, reaching the minimum of estrangement from the human that comes: how much of reality our illusion is capable to withstand?