Abstract
Abstract In his book Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben describes a condition which he refers to as ‘bare life’. This is a complicated concept, but one aspect of it points to a situation in which the significance or worth of a person ceases to be recognised, and that person becomes exposed to death, in the sense that he or she can be killed without consequences. According to Agamben, this situation arises from a particular kind of interaction between two other forms of life: on the one hand, ‘natural life’ or ‘the simple fact of living’ (which he associates with the ancient Greek concept zoe); on the other,’political life’ or ‘the form of the life of a political community’ (which he associates with the ancient Greek concept bios).
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