Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, the first book of his multi-volume Homo Sacer project, urges a reconsideration of theories of sovereignty as put forward ‘from Hobbes to Rousseau' (1998: 109). The theory of sovereign power offered by the book is based on the state of exception (as in Schmitt) and the production of a bare, human life caught in the sovereign ban, which constitutes the threshold of the political community. Responding to Foucault's theory of biopolitics, in which human life becomes the target of the organisational power of the State, Agamben argues that there exists a ‘hidden tie' between sovereign power and biopolitics, forged in the exceptional basis of State sovereignty.Blurb source- Stanford University Press - http://www.sup.org/books/title/id=24895