The return of the political to stasis, or Once again about "homo sacer"

Review of the book by J. Agamben “Stasis. Civil war as a political paradigm. Homo sacer, II, 2. " (SPb.: Publishing house "Vladimir Dal", 2021. 190 p.)

Abstract

Study of the famous Italian philosopher J. Agamben “Stasis. Civil war as a political paradigm. Homo sacer, II, 2 ”continues his series of works on“ Homo sacer ”. It examines the problem of civil war as a phenomenon characterized by a complex borderline in relation to two fundamental categories of ancient and Western culture, family and polis. J. Agamben presents Stasis not only as something that is located between the private sphere of the family and the public sphere of the city, but also as something that paradoxically opposes these spheres. The civil war functions as a ousted or destined to be forgotten political foundation, which allows it to be correlated with the main category of J. Agamben “homo sacer” and to come to a critical understanding of the fundamental problems of our time, among which one of the main is the problem of terrorism.