Abstract This article examines the slightly changing legal and ethical situation in Germany around so called end-of-life-decisions. Representation plays the complex role here of a ‘dispositif’ in the Foucauldian sense. Living wills first came into use 40 years ago: a very personal choice (how do I want to die?) could now be transferred to a proxy decision-maker. Some years later, various forms of presumed agreement gained acceptance, and today even merely hypothetical consent has become conceivable. Representation increasingly ceases to be representational at all. At the same time, concepts from Civil Law (Autonomy, Decision) have finally absorbed an older way of thinking that was based in Criminal Law. Beyond a biopolitical shift, according to the author’s thesis, these changes also correspond to a juridical shift.

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自治的语义、决策的悲情和生命终结时的表征的配置

摘要 本文探讨了德国围绕所谓的临终决定略有变化的法律和道德状况。表征在这里扮演着福柯意义上的“处置”的复杂角色。生前遗嘱在 40 年前首次使用：一个非常个人的选择（我想怎么死？）现在可以转移给代理决策者。几年后，各种形式的假定同意获得了接受，今天，甚至仅仅是假设同意也变得可以想象。代表性越来越不再具有代表性。与此同时，民法（自治、决定）的概念最终吸收了基于刑法的旧思维方式。根据作者的论文，除了生命政治转变之外，这些变化也对应于司法转变。