%0 Journal Article %T Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben: From Biopolitics to Political Romanticism %A Federico Luisetti %J Journal of Philosophy of Life %D 2011 %I Research Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life %X Giorgio Agamben¡¯s politics of life intertwines two diverging traditions of philosophical thought: Michel Foucault¡¯s biopolitics and Carl Schmitt¡¯s political philosophy. With the help of Carl Schmitt¡¯s concept of ¡°political romanticism,¡± I interpret Agamben¡¯s strategy as an attempt to introduce a bio-aesthetics of political vitality. Moreover, I situate Agamben¡¯s politics of life in opposition to Schmitt¡¯s biopolitics. %U http://www.philosophyoflife.org/jpl201103.pdf