The Exemplary Plane
The Exemplary Plane
This chapter cites historical examples of life that thrive on the suspension of law’s relation to language, explaining how a life that is marked by the singularity of an exceptional situation pretend to exhibit the sense of belonging to a class. It focuses on Giorgio Agamben’s essay What Is a Paradigm?, which analyzes the role of homo sacer and the musselman in establishing a broader historical-problematic context. The chapter concludes with a clarification to the meaning of “paradigm”, in which Agamben and Michel Foucault suggest that it is a definitive methodological tool in any archaeological investigation that is concerned with the politics of epistemology.
Keywords: language, Giorgio Agamben, What Is a Paradigm, homo sacer, musselman, historical-problematic context, paradigm, Michel Foucault
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