State of Exception

Name: State of Exception
Author: Giorgio Agamben

by Giorgio Agamben

Analysis of state of exception and suspension of law in political governance

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Giorgio Agamben

Italian philosopher whose Homo Sacer series uses the Roman figure of the person who can be killed but not sacrificed to analyze modern biopolitics, sovereignty, and the state of exception. His work became urgently relevant after 9/11 and the War on Terror. He is one of the most widely translated philosophers of his generation.

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