ABSTRACT The versions of ‘political theology’ articulated by Schmitt and Benjamin, and in more recent times by Agamben, have been of substantial influence on debate in international legal scholarship. The standpoint adopted here is the project of a collective and pluralist analysis of public international law. It is argued that while Agamben’s writings have the potential to contribute to this project, available appropriations of Agamben’s influential claims regarding sovereignty, ‘bare life’ and the ‘state of exception’ are inadequate in this respect. The role played by ‘peoplehood’ both illustrates and contributes to the conceptual difficulties within the present debate. Ways forward for the scholarship of international law include a more discriminating appropriation of Agamben which would attempt to decouple a potentially pluralist and collectivist Agamben from a biopolitics- and state-focused Agamben. This would be to go beyond ‘the kingdom’ and possibly, beyond ‘political theology’.

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国际法学术中的多元主义、人性和政治神学

摘要 Schmitt 和 Benjamin 以及最近由 Agamben 阐述的“政治神学”版本对国际法律学术界的辩论产生了重大影响。这里采用的观点是对国际公法进行集体和多元分析的项目。有人认为，虽然阿甘本的著作有可能为这个项目做出贡献，但阿甘本关于主权、“赤裸生命”和“例外状态”的有影响力的主张的可用拨款在这方面是不够的。“人性”所扮演的角色既说明了当前辩论中的概念难题，又助长了这些难题。国际法学术的前进道路包括对阿甘本的更具歧视性的挪用，这将试图将潜在的多元化和集体主义的阿甘本与以生命政治​​和国家为重点的阿甘本脱钩。这将超越“国度”，也可能超越“政治神学”。