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States of exception : law, history, theory / edited by Cosmin Cercel, Gian Giacomo Fusco and Simon Lavis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law and politics: continental perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and emergency powers.
- War and emergency powers--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- States of Exception
- Place of Publication:
- Routledge.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Dr Cosmin Cercel is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution (Routledge: 2017). Dr Gian-Giacomo Fusco is Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. Dr Simon Lavis is Lecturer in Law at the Open University.
- Summary:
- This book addresses the relevance of the state of exception for the analysis of law, while reflecting on the deeper symbolic and jurisprudential significance of the coalescence between law and force. The concept of the state of exception has become a central topos in political and legal philosophy as well as in critical theory. The theoretical apparatus of the state of exception sharply captures the uneasy relationship between law, life and politics in the contemporary global setting, while also challenging the comforting narratives that uncritically connect democracy with the tradition of the rule of law. Drawing on critical legal theory, continental jurisprudence, political philosophy and history, this book explores the genealogy of the concept of the state of exception and reflects on its legal embodiment in past and present contexts - including Weimar and Nazi Germany, contemporary Europe and Turkey. In doing so, it explores the disruptive force of the exception for legal and political thought, as it recuperates its contemporary critical potential. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of jurisprudence, philosophy and critical legal theory.
- Notes:
- "A GlassHouse book".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 30, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780429666513
- 0429666519
- 9780429022296
- 0429022298
- 9780429663796
- 042966379X
- 9780429661075
- 042966107X
- OCLC:
- 1175912869
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