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Giorgio Agamben Kevin Attell State of Exception (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: State of ExceptionCondition: NewEAN: 9780226009254ISBN: 9780226009254Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/15/2005Author: Giorgio Agamben, Kevin AttellLanguage: EnglishDescription: Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a normal paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt.In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Height: 22mmItem Length: 14mmItem Width: 1mmItem Weight: 255gRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: State of Exception

Title: State of Exception

EAN: 9780226009254

ISBN: 9780226009254

Release Date: 01/15/2005

Release Year: 2005

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality

Number of Pages: 104 Pages

Publication Name: State of Exception

Language: English

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Item Height: 0 in

Subject: Human Rights, Military / General, History & Theory, Political, Military

Publication Year: 2005

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 4.9 Oz

Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Philosophy, History

Author: Giorgio Agamben

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