State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The essay concludes by exploring whether Agamben’s work might enrich legal inquiry, despite its often alien tenor, by reviewing some recent cases in the UK and the US involving exceptional measures. Title: Defending our legal practices: a legal critique of Giorgio Agambens State of exception Journal: Amsterdam Law Forum Volume: 1 Pages (from-to): 113. Engaging with Agamben’s text on its own terms – rather than focusing on the potential deficiencies of an approach that eschews standard doctrinal and empirical research – the essay seeks to distil a set of conceptual and analogical perspectives that might help interpret the significance of the present rise of emergency regimes. This review essay examines in some detail Giorgio Agamben’s recent State of Exception, his third in a series of books that reconstruct sovereignty using a range of interdisciplinary and critical tools. ![]()
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