| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 社會學研究所 === 92 === In 2003, the Bush administration waged war against Iraq despite energetic waves of protest worldwide. Both camps, taking pro or con views on the war, make the war a case for defending their respective grounds. Beyond their ostensibly different interpretation on the rationale of war, both camps share the same gird and same claim on the war; and "saving human lives" gives the grid a concrete content. The thesis proposes that the idea of biopolitque (biopolitics) and biopouvoir (biopower), first coined by Michel Foucault, could serve as the grid. Foucault''s theory of biopower could trace back to a tradition of militarist theory, in which the most eminent theoretician, Carl Schmitt, proposes a sovereignty-war theory. In the frame of militarist theory, Foucault relates war to biopower. But it is not until Giorgio Agamben identifies the concept of Home Sacer that the former two theoreticians'' visions and insights articulate brilliantly, and the theory of sovereignty is reoriented toward biopower. This thesis defines the iraqi-american war in 2003 as a war of biopolitics, and iraqi people''s suffering was a result of being homines sacri in the deployment of biopower. This biopolitical war may not be the last one of its kind; and biopower, which is inextricably interwined with war, still demands our attention in the future.
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