The Omnibus Homo Sacer

by Giorgio Agamben

  totalitarianism and, 113–31. See also death;

  Indo­European languages and, 308–11,

  life; modernity; politics

  INDEX 1295

  bios: aesthetics and, 1115–16; definition of,

  Bredekamp, Horst, 279, 286

  5; forms of life and, 973, 1254–64; Myth

  Bréhier, Louis, 547

  of Er and, 1252–53; zoē and, 9–10, 597,

  Brinkmann, August, 677

  1206–10, 1215. See also life

  The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 814

  birth, 106–7, 144–45

  Brutus, Marcus, 75

  Bisclavret (de France), 90

  Buchenwald, 790–91, 829

  Bismarckian Constitution, 178

  bureaucracy, 502–20

  Blaise, Albert, 691

  Burke, Edmund, 105

  Blanchot, Maurice, 19, 53, 851

  Burnouf, Émile, 307

  blasphemy, 330–33, 336–38, 341, 354

  Bush, George W., 184

  Blatt, Franz, 514

  Byzantinisches Christentum (Ball), 513

  blessedness, 570–72

  blessings, 325–28

  Cabasilas, Nicolas, 528–29, 666, 954

  Blum, Léon, 177

  Cacciari, Massimo, 44

  Blumenberg, Hans, 376

  Caeiro, Alberto, 840–41

  bodies: appropriation of, 888–89; biopoliti­

  Cagin, P., 526

  cal, 141–42, 152–53, 815–16; of Christ, 79,

  Caius Flaminius, 75

  1159–62, 1166; Dasein and, 1191; forms

  Caius Gracchus, 208

  of life and, 1231–39; habeas corpus and,

  Calcidius, 685–86, 688

  102; as inappropriable, 1101–12; the law

  Caligula, 532, 592

  and, 1060–61; liturgical acclamation and,

  Callois, Roger, 67

  528–30; movement of, 1183; political power

  Candidus, 667, 692

  and, 8, 273, 277; slavery and, 1029–48; sov­

  Canetti, Elias, 795

  ereignty and, 77–87, 150–51, 237–38, 286,

  Canti (Leopardi), 600

  460–64, 545–46, 593, 805; subjecthood

  Capelle, Catherine, 920

  and, 124–25; use of, 888–89, 1029–48,

  capitalism, 7, 909

  1096, 1098–99. See also equipmentality;

  Capitula canonum et regula, 924

  forms of life; labor (monastic); potentialcaptivation, 1193–95

  ity; reason; will, the

  care (for life), 121–26, 1056–72, 1115

  Bodin, Jean, 79, 145, 230–31

  Carpi, Aldo, 794–95

  Boehm, Rudolf, 1122, 1137–40, 1143

  Casel, Odo, 675–79, 681–84, 694, 733–34

  Boer War, 137

  Cassian, Jean, 733, 896, 899–905, 908, 910,

  Boethius, 447, 485–89, 621, 695–96, 1136, 1155

  915, 920–21

  Boll, Franz, 524

  Cassiodorus, 906

  Bonagratia of Bergamo, 976, 978–79, 991–93

  Cassirer, Ernst, 336, 1197–98

  Bonaventure (Saint), 506–7, 571, 968–70, 972,

  Cassius, Spurius, 75

  976–78, 985–88, 990, 996

  Cassius Dios, 592

  Boniface VIII, 460

  Catachesis (Cyril of Alexandria), 528–29

  Book of Ceremonies (Constantine), 904

  Categories (Aristotle), 1131–32, 1134, 1136, 1139

  Book of Muhammad’s Ladder, 1231

  Cats, Jacob, 265

  Book of Poverty and Death (Rilke), 809

  causes (Aristotle’s theory of), 369, 446,

  Book of Rules (Tyconius), 944

  455–62, 473–74, 482–500, 609–22, 692–93,

  The Book of Sacred Worship (Ibn Gabbai), 578

  1091–95

  boredom, 1194–95

  Celan, Paul, 785, 787, 869

  Bosse, Abraham, 268, 269, 283

  Celestial Hierarchy (apochryphal), 509–11

  Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 629, 631

  The Celestial Hierarchy (Dionysius the

  Brack, Viktor, 118

  Aeropagite), 507–8

  brain death, 133–36

  Celestine I, 903

  Bramhall, John, 272–73

  Cenobitic Institutions (Cassian), 733, 899,

  Brand, Karl, 118

  901–3, 908, 920

  Brandt, Reinhard, 271, 271

  cenoby, 895–900, 907–10, 916, 923–24, 935,

  “Braucht Europa eine Verfassung?” (Grimm),

  946, 957–58, 980–81

  605

  Chaplin, Charlie, 831

  1296 INDEX

  Char, René, 1197

  Cogitata (Spinoza), 1176

  charisma, 238–39, 659, 661–62, 666–67

  Colli, Giorgio, 1243

  Charlemagne, 544

  commands, 717–21, 743, 745–46, 748–52,

  Charles Albert (King), 87

  1029–30, 1033–35, 1097–98, 1275–76

  Charles II, 269

  Commentarius in Symbolum Apostolorum

  Charles the Great, 458

  (Rufinus), 943

  Charles V, 549

  Commentary on Romans (Origen), 688

  Charles VI, 464

  Commentary on the Divine Liturgy (Cabasilis),

  Charte of 1814 (France), 175– 176

  954

  Chauvin, Étienne, 624

  commissarial dictatorships, 193–95, 198–99, 209

  Childeric III, 458

  Commodus, 399, 531, 592

  chresis, 1031–33, 1049–62, 1070, 1075, 1081–87

  The Commonweale (Kantorowicz), 86

  Christ, Jesus: effectiveness and, 690–94;

  communicative action, 606–7

  Francis’s life in relation to, 973–74; as

  Compendium grammaticus linguae hebraeae

  God­man, 425–26, 495–97, 925; as gover­

  (Spinoza), 835, 1053–54, 1176

  nor of the world, 613–15; instrumentality

  conatus, 1181–82

  and, 1095–99; martyrdom of, 779; officials

  concentration camps: biopolitics and, 7, 12,

  acting in the name of, 668–72; oikonomia

  99–104, 815–16, 1243; the celestial city

  and, 395–96, 400–401, 403; sovereignty

  and, 519–20; death in, 808–10; ethics and,

  analyses and, 79–87; survival of, 850;

  822–23; the exception and, 20–21, 793–94;

  transubstantiation and, 1159–60. See also

  law and, 137–47; medical experiments

  oikonomia; Trinity, the

  and, 127–31; modernity and, 143–47; the

  Chrysippus, 306, 345, 394, 405, 474–75

  Muslim and, 151, 153, 788–818; shame

  Chtcheglov, Ivan, 1021

  and, 819–50; soccer game in the midst of,

  Church Dogmatics (Barth), 564

  777–78; Sonderkommando and, 777–78;

  Cicero, 92, 202–8, 260, 302–3, 317–26, 525–30,

  as space of exception, 139–48; witnessing

  685–87, 705–16, 724, 732, 901, 963–64,

  and, 767–69. See also biopolitics; testi­

  1043, 1075–76

  mony; witnessing; specific camps

  Circo Massimo, 525

  The Concept of the Political (Schmitt), 211

  citizenship, 105–12, 1218–20; of the celestial

  Concordia regularum, 913–14

  city, 502–20, 673; civil war and, 260–61;

  Confessions (Augustine), 518

  homo sacer and, 141; kinship and, 259–60;

  Conlationes (Cassian), 915

  Nazi policies on, 113–36, 144–47; rights

  consensus, 253, 370

  and, 148, 175; slaver
y and, 1029–48; social

  consent, 129–30, 370

  contract theory and, 88–93, 148. See also

  conservation, 447–54

  politics; rights

  consignment, 52, 56, 82–84, 92, 812, 831–35,

  City Lights (film), 831

  847–48, 1104–5, 1188–11198

  The City of God (Augustine), 590–94

  Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, 380–82,

  civil war, 168, 202–3, 241, 253–64, 281–82,

  423, 538–40, 654, 904

  305–6

  Constantius II, 549

  Civil War (US), 182–83

  Constitutional Theory (Schmitt), 602

  Clare (Saint), 969–70

  Constitution of the Apostles, 574–75

  Clareno, Angelo, 972

  constitutions, 36–43; American, 87; dictator­

  Clauberg test, 128

  ships and, 172–73; European Union and,

  Cleanthes, 306

  605–6; force of law and, 198; Italian, 175;

  The Clementine Homilies (Clement of

  monasticism and, 928–34; Schmitt on,

  Alexandria), 589–90

  230–31; states of exceptions as suspending,

  Clement of Alexandria, 400, 403, 413–15, 425,

  138–47, 174–89; Weimar, 168, 171, 178–79,

  441, 513, 589–90, 659–62, 678, 704

  216–17, 438. See also power; sovereignty

  Clement V, 965, 968

  constitutive norms, 945–46, 1245–48

  Clio, 255

  contemplation, 506–8, 518, 562, 570, 598–600,

  Coccia, Emanuele, 980

  937, 1000, 1085–86, 1217–18, 1221–26,

  Codrington, Robert Henry, 311

  1243–51, 1277–78

  INDEX 1297

  Conti, Libero, 119

  death: Bichat on, 862–64; corpses and, 813–14;

  contingency, 40–43, 124, 468–69, 482–83, 632,

  degradation of, 807–9, 814–16; Heidegger

  858–59, 1079, 1179–80, 1187, 1219

  on, 809–11, 814–15; the Muslim and,

  Contra Eutychen, 695–96

  807–8, 816–18, 863–64; politicization of,

  Contra Noetum (Hippolytus), 404

  132–36; sacred life and, 79–87; suicide and,

  Conventuals, 988–90, 998

  113; survival and, 82–84, 132–36, 777–80,

  Convivio (Dante), 1054–55, 1093

  794–95, 799–802, 812; thanatopolitics and,

  Corpus hermeticum, 1221

  101–2, 117–18. See also thanatopolitics

  Corpus Hippocraticum, 388, 1203–4, 1232

  de Biran, Maine, 1086

  Council of Constantinople, 382

  Debord, Guy, 604, 607, 1021, 1023–25

  Council of Trent, 664, 668

  Decio Mure, 919

  Coup de dés (Mallarmé), 588

  decisions (sovereign), 21–25, 55, 70, 92–107,

  creation, the, 421–29, 447–54, 487, 621–22,

  118, 126, 140–43, 190–95, 212–14, 468–69,

  1174–75

  487, 1083–84

  Crifò, Giuliano, 70

  Decius Mus, Publius, 82

  crisis, 45, 105, 431, 957–58

  De Cive (Hobbes), 104, 276–79, 282, 738–39

  Critique de la séparation (Debord), 1021

  De Civitate Dei (Augustine), 288

  Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 46, 741–43, Declaratio communitatis (Ubertino of Casale),

  746–48

  988–89, 991

  “Critique of Violence” (Benjamin), 27, 54,

  Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,

  197–98, 211–13, 218–19, 1270

  105–6, 110, 118

  Crusius, 740

  De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius), 485–89

  Cullmann, Oscar, 374

  deconstruction, 47–48, 221, 375, 848

  Curia (Roman), 678, 924, 962, 967, 975–81,

  de Coulanges, Fustel, 255

  987, 1100

  Decree for the Protection of the People and

  Curiositas naturalis (Linneaus), 625

  the State, 168

  curses, 324–30, 333–34, 351, 353–54

  Decretal (Ivo of Chartres), 924

  cynicism, 1119–20, 1249

  Decretals (Hostiensis), 918

  Cyril of Alexandria (Saint), 528

  Decretum (Gratian), 186, 458–60, 926, 977–78

  Cyril of Jerusalem, 585, 682

  De doctrina christiana (Augustine), 943

  De ecclesiasticis officiis (Isidore), 704

  Dachau, 127, 130, 139, 790–91, 829

  De finibus (Cicero), 687, 706

  Dakotas, 311

  De finibus paupertatis (Hugh of Digne), 978,

  Daladier, Édouard, 177

  985–86

  Damasus (Pope), 517

  de France, Marie, 90

  dance, 686

  De Francisci, Pietro, 239

  Danièlou, Jean, 571

  De fuga saeculi (Ambrose), 928

  Dante Alighieri, 187, 343, 506, 600, 768, 795,

  de Gandillac, Maurice, 571

  821, 839, 1054–55, 1093, 1218

  De Gaulle, Charles, 177

  Das Buch von den Engeln (Peterson), 502, 956

  De genesi ad litteram (Augustine), 449–50

  Das christliche Kultmysterium (Casel), 677

  The Degrees of the Forms (Giles of Viterbo),

  Dasein, 125–26, 153, 684, 700, 845–46, 1063–

  1164–65

  72, 1104, 1108, 1158, 1185–99, 1240–44

  De gubernatione Dei (Salvian), 473, 488–89

  Das Iusititum (Nissen), 204

  De gubernatione mundi (Aquinas), 490–92,

  Das patristische Wort “oikonomia” (Lillge),

  494–97, 506–7, 516

  374

  De homine (Hobbes), 104

  Dawesen, 1198–99

  De interpretatione (Aristotle), 325

  dead languages, 867–69

  De iure naturae et gentium (Pufendorf ),

  De anima (Aristotle), 41, 408, 725, 1033–34,

  737–38

  1144, 1146, 1207–10, 1227

  de La Boétie, Étienne, 8

  De anima libri mantissa (Alexander of

  de la Rivière, Mercier, 491

  Aphrodisias), 1078

  De Lemare, Nicolas, 120

  De arcanis rerum publicarum (Clapmar), 865

  De l’état de siège (Reinach), 168, 216

  1298 INDEX

  Deleule, Didier, 482, 629

  Des Bosses, Bartholomew, 1159–62, 1169–71,

  Deleuze, Gilles, 19, 743, 1060, 1085–86

  1180

  De l’évasion (Levinas), 1104, 1197–98

  Descartes, René, 439, 1118–19

  De l’existance à l’existant (Levinas), 1158

  desire, 1061–62

  Deligny, Fernand, 1235–36

  despotēs, 387

  De lingua latina (Varro), 716–17

  Des Pres, Terrence, 822–24, 850

  De l’ordre social (Le Trosne), 627

  destiny, 480–83, 500. See also providence

  Delorme, Ferdinand, 993

  destituent potential, 1268

  demand, the, 1180–82

  desubjectification, 836–42, 861–62

  Demeny, P., 837

  De substantia corporea (Des Bosses), 1159–60

  democracy: acclamation and, 602–3; bodies

  De theologicis dogmatibus (Petavius), 624

  and, 102–4, 816–17; collapse of, in

  De Trinitate (Augustine), 1156–57

  Europe, 171–72; constituting vs. constide Troyes, Chrétien, 432

  tuted power in, 36–43, 1278–79; govern­

  De usu partium (Galen), 1074, 1081

  ment by consent and, 3
70, 605–8; Greek,

  De veritatis primis (Leibniz), 1171

  56–57; laws­as­rules in, 38–39; modern vs.

  De virginibus velandis (Tertullian), 942

  classical, 11–12; oath­giving and, 302–3;

  devotio, 81–85, 323–25, 327–28, 351, 353, 733–34,

  ontology of, 1122–23; providence and, 495,

  919–24, 933–34, 983

  500–501; slavery and, 387–88, 1029–48;

  diaita, 1232

  social contract theory and, 88–93; states of dialectics, 561–62, 671–72, 947–51, 1033–34,

  emergency and, 168; theological inher­

  1039, 1069–72, 1143

  itance of, 619–23; totalitarianism and,

  Dialogue with Trypho (Justin), 395

  11–12, 100–101; virtue and, 736–37. See

  dictatorship, 193–95, 198–99, 206–7, 209, 214

  also Schmitt, Carl

  Dictatorship (Schmitt), 171, 193–94, 196, 216

  De monarchia (Dante), 187, 1218

  dictatorships, 171–72

  demonology, 282–83, 285, 288–89, 522

  Dictionnaire étymologique de la languae latine

  Demosthenes, 326, 653

  (Ernout­Meillet), 67

  De mundo (Aristotle), 379, 434, 436, 737

  dictum, 535–36

  De mysteriis (Ambrose), 681

  Didache, 907–8

  de­nationalization, 109–10, 123–26, 140–47

  Diderot, Denis, 621

  De natura deorum (Cicero), 318

  Die Hegemonie (Triepel), 238

  De natura et gratia (Augustine), 464, 1084–85

  Die Kirche (Peterson), 378–79

  De octo spiritibys malitiae (Niles), 911

  Dieterich, Albrecht, 548

  De officiis (Cicero), 317, 706, 711–12

  Diezinger, Walter, 684–85, 714

  De officiis ministrorum (Ambrose), 704

  The Differend (Lyotard), 784–85

  De officio hominis et civis (Pufendorf), 737–38

  Digest (Justinian), 198, 315, 709, 860, 942,

  De oratione, 908

  1041

  De ordine (Augustine), 453

  dignitas, 79, 86, 150, 235–38, 459–60, 593,

  De perfectione evangelica (Olivi), 999

  804–7

  De perfectionibus moribusque divinis (Lessius),

  dignity, 799–807, 809, 813–15

  568–72

  Dimanche de vie (Queneau), 53

  De philosophorum Graecorum silentio mystico

  Dio Cassius, 231, 235

  (Casel), 677

  Dio Chrysostom of Prusa, 329

  De praecepto et dispensatione (Bernard of

  Diocletian, 531

  Clairvaux), 932

  Diodorus Siculus, 390

  De principiis (Origen), 411–12

  Diogenes Laertius, 705, 1073–75, 1259

  De regimine civitatum (John of Viterbo), 473

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 587

  De regno (Aquinas), 471, 473

  Dionysius the Aeropagite, 507–11, 513, 533,

  Der Hüter der Verfassung (Schmitt), 230–31