O homem é o lobo do homem: o lugar do bandido na sociedade de risco

Abstract

Freud on the work “malaise on the civilization” discuss Hobbes’ affirmative “The man is the man’s wolf”. For the author thisaffirmative puts on the scene the aggressiveness that we use do deal with the other. Beck in “society of risk” proposes that we livetoday on a society where the production of risks overcomes the accumulation of technological and economical power. Weinterrogate, on this scenario, the emergence of a dangerous figure, considered the wolf of the society, a living risk: the bandit.Therefore, we make use of Agamben’s notion of naked life, to think about the statute of this figure, a killable life, without value. Ifeach society elects it’s homo sacer, the bandit presents himself as a homo sacer for the society of risk. In an effort to calculate andmeasure the impossible, the society of risk ends up producing an undesirable effect: puts in evidence the character of naked lifeinherent to each living being. The bandit is elected as a dangerous figure, bearer of the agressiveness of the wolf, and his placewould be that of a living being inhabited by death.