| #87755 in Books | Giorgio Agamben | 2005-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.60 x5.50l,.35 | File Name: 0226009254 | 104 pages | State of Exception
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Cautionary Book for the War on Terrorism|By The Peripatetic Reader|The State has employed from time to time a political action by declaring an emergency and suspending the laws and/or Constitutions of the country. This state of emergency is what Agamben calls the “State of Exception.” Readers will be familiar with declaring a state of emergency more from the resu||
"When a conservative member of the U.S. Congress recently designated the Guantanamo prisoners as 'those who were missed by the bombs' and thus forfeited their right to live, he almost literally evoked Agamben's notion of homo sacer, a man reduced to bare
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 s... [PDF.yo86] State of Exception Rating: 4.95 (727 Votes)
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