This paper will examine the Agambenian thesis of ‘naked life’ in relation to sovereign power. In
particular, the article aims to compare the central thesis of Agamben’s “Homo sacer” project with
the notions of Biopolitics and Biopower proposed by Michel Foucault. In “Homo sacer” (the
project and the book of Agamben) the exclusion/inclusion of bare life in politics represents, according
to Agamben, a “correction” of Foucault. However, its development goes in the direction
of an Ontology.
