TY  - CONF
A1  - Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi
T1  - The bare life and (the) modern law : a journey to some key concepts or conceptions of Agamben
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 033
N2  - This text is imitating a journey which tries to explore what is completely unknown. It starts Homo Sacer and traces some key concepts namely der Muselmann, bare life, state of exception, sovereignty and nihilism in law. Doing so, it hopes to reach a general picture of biopolitics or biopower according to Agamben. So, first part of this text generally tries to clarify some fundamental concepts or conceptions in order to use them for its aim. The second part suggests an alternative reading of Agamben, centered around his concept of der Muselmann which is the ultimate figure defined by Primo Levi and Agamben chooses the term because of its resemblance to or representation of Homo Sacer. Der Muselmann was a derogatory term in its origin and very meaning has still been unclear today. So, the second part tries to clarify the meaning of der Muselmann (and unbaptized babies) from a different outlook, not from outside but inside of the referred concept. It tries to show a Muslim’s image of a non Muslim world in order to reveal what are the very meanings of sovereignty, law and biopolitics. So at the end of the journey, this text hopes to reach a different picture of modern life and a modern law.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 033 
KW  - Biopolitics
KW  - biopower
KW  - Bare Life
KW  - Homo Sacer
KW  - Der Muselmann
KW  - Agamben
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Turkish sociological positivism
KW  - postmodern thought
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24891
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-248913
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -