G. Agamben: Citizenship and Nude Life

This paper sketches the main directions of political thought of G. Agamben, particularly, relating the concept - derived of the W. Benjamin philosophy-of "nude life" to the modern concept of "citizenship". Inclusion criteria and, at the same time, sacrifice, that citizenship involves according this interpretation, is analyzed in both its structure and its history and its receptions conditions. Latter depending on, a number of ratings are tested and, also, a number of critical observations are made, about what Agamben meant by "new policy" and the abstraction of the concept of "biopolitics" dissociated from a knowledge geopolitics.