Agamben has engaged since the nineties in a debate with the political writings of the German jurist Carl Schmitt, most extensively in Agamben's study State of Exception ( 2003 ).

Agamben's concept rests on a crucial distinction in Greek between ' bare life ' ( la vita nuda, Gk. ζωή: zoê ) and ' a particular mode of life ' or ' qualified life.

The most relevant of these to Agamben's own later work were Benjamin's manuscripts for his theses On the Concept of History.

This reduction of life to ' biopolitics ' is one of the main threads in Agamben's work, in his critical conception of an homo sacer, reduced to ' bare life ', and thus deprived of any rights.

Still, we must remember that we cannot construct and justify generalizations of this sort unless we are ready to consider many special instances of influence moving between such areas as theology, philosophy, political thought, and literature.

Whatever the military world thought, the political world approved it wholeheartedly.

`` I thought I knew more than my education had taught me, '' notes the narrator, `` because I had encountered the militant mobs of a political or religious faith ''.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

It is a system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on Chinese history, thought, and culture down to the 21st century.

Far from trying to build a systematic or formalist theory, he wanted his disciples to master and internalize the old classics, so that their deep thought and thorough study would allow them to relate the moral problems of the present to past political events ( as recorded in the Annals ) or the past expressions of commoners ' feelings and noblemen's reflections ( as in the poems of the Book of Odes ).

Confucius ' political thought is based upon his ethical thought.

Ideological coercion is the use of thought coercion in the attempt to modify people ’ s social and political philosophy.

The ethical standing of wider forms of supposedly “ altruistic ” specific coercion – like political and thought coercion – is however much more controversial, along lines relating to the assumed relationship between coercion and freedom, which is often regarded as an ethical value in itself.

Conservative thought developed alongside nationalism in Germany, culminating in Germany's victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War, the creation of the unified German Empire in 1871, and the simultaneous rise of Otto von Bismarck on the European political stage.

* Recent conservative political thought: American perspectives / Russell G.

This school of thought also brings together some unlikely political allies.

For example, in the political controversy over anthropogenic climate change that is prevalent in the United States-it has been thought that those who are opposed to the scientific consensus did so because of a lack of evidence.

The term ' democracy ' first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

: the intelligible and the sensible, the spontaneous and the receptive, autonomy and heteronomy, the empirical and the transcendental, immanent and transcendent, as the interior and exterior, or the founded and the founder, normal and abnormal, phonetic and writing, analasis and synthesis, the literal sense and figurative meaning in language, reason and madness in psychoanalysis, the masculine and feminine in gender theory, man and animal in ecology, the beast and the sovereign in the political field, theory and practice as distinct dominions of thought itself.

Because deconstruction examines the internal logic of any given text or discourse it helped many authors to analyse the contradictions inherent in all schools of thought, and as such it has proved revolutionary in political analysis, particularly ideology critiques.

( Imperium is Latin for the authority to command, one of a various types of authority delineated in Roman political thought.

During the reign of his elder brother, Emperor Tenji, Temmu was forced to marry several of Tenji's daughters because Tenji thought those marriages would help to strengthen political ties between the two brothers.

" As Douglass began to read newspapers, political materials, and books of every description, he was exposed to a new realm of thought that led him to question and condemn the institution of slavery.

Political freedom ( also known as political autonomy or political agency ) is a central concept in Western history and political thought, and one of the most important ( real or ideal ) features of democratic societies.

Because of the political upheaval in Germany in the 1930's, Steinberg was forced to restrict his activities to the Jewish community.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every quarter, but not entirely without a staunch following of noted political thinkers and students of jurisprudence.

Until the Charter of Liberties was issued in the fall of 1958, there were no guarantees of the right to assemble or to organize for political purposes.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.

These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing political consequences.