Mythology of the Rule, Mythology of the Exception

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Notes

1 Giorgio Agamben, Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics, 1st ed. (Stanford University Press, 2017).

2 F. Nietzsche, Le livre du philosophe, Das Philosophenbuch: theoretische Studien.

3 Carl Schmitt, Politial Theology, Format Kindle, 122 p (University of Chicago Press, 2010), “Definition of Souvereignty”, p. 1.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid.

6 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stadford University Press, 1998), Kindle, 1.1.

7 Begining of the XIIe century. "who reigns over all "li suverains reis (speaking of God) (Saint Brendan, 564 ds T.-L.)", https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/souverain

8 Thomas Aquino, De Ente et Essentia, 13, https://dhspriory.org/thomas/DeEnte&Essentia.htm.

9 Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (University of Chicago Press; Enlarged edition, 2007).

10 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, he quotes, Foucault, La volonté de savoir, (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Emplacements du Kindle 48–49). Édition du Kindle.

11 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, he quotes, Foucault, Dits et écrits, (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Emplacements du Kindle 53-54). Édition du Kindle.

12 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Emplacements du Kindle 97–99). Édition du Kindle.

13 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Emplacements du Kindle 99–102). Édition du Kindle.

14 Διότι δὲ πολιτικὸν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ζῷον πάσης μελίττης καὶ παντὸς ἀγελαίου ζῴου μᾶλλον, δῆλον. 

15 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Emplacements du Kindle 96–97). Édition du Kindle.

16 Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Emplacements du Kindle 223–224). Édition du Kindle.

17 Aristote 1253a.

18 G. Agamben, Le temps qui vient, Rivage, p. 91, transalated in english.

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Jacques Athanase Gilbert

Jacques Athanase Gilbert is a Full Professor in university of Nantes. He works between comparative literature and philosophy. He is interested in the questions of the links between narration and theory. He published Les variations de l’imitation in 2013 (Ed du Cerf). He is a codirector of the research journal Études digitales.