Giorgio Agamben's thought consists of a philosophical device that poses the demand for the emancipation of the constituted, but without generating a new constitution. This conceptual context has as its cement the notion of "signature", which justifies the thesis of the analogy between the archaic and the actual. From there, he deploys notions such as those of homo sacer or "bare life". The concentration camp and the current city, or the state of exception of Hitler and Guantánamo, thus allow us to understand both the past and the present.

Agamben's proposal stresses the catastrophe of the world, its sinfulness, from which only his own device would be saved. In the face of this apocalyptic vision, based on a radical cosmopolitanism that does not derive from the rights of the individual, but from our generic animal condition, this book defends the struggle for law, which still trusts in institutions and in the critical role of philosophy.