This paper will investigate the Agambenean instrument of the paradigm, starting from thecriticisms Agamben received for his paradigmatic use of the concentration camp of Auschwitz. I will clarify the analytic and logical structure of the paradigm, and then I will explain its potentiality in an ontological criticism of the sovereign and biopolitical nature of Occidental thought and politics, and of the exceptional structure of the Occidental metaphysics.
