Book
English
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20.500.12854/52502>
Abstract
Ninon Grangé addresses the state of exception from a philosophical point of view. The book focuses on diachronic analysis with reference to legal history texts and genealogies that may have been proposed, and to synchronic analysis based on philosophical, sociological and political sources. The reduction and abolition of freedoms is only the emerging part of the state of exception as recently introduced in different countries. In his philosophical understanding, it reveals aspects of politics that are invisible in normal linear times. The book draws a historical background which brings back the exceptional state to its original state, the state of the seat which, surprisingly, no longer distinguishes civil war from external war. On the basis of this evidence of ambivalence impregnating the exceptional state from the outset, various instrumentalisations are analysed: amalgamates with civil war, the idea of dictatorship, and lawlessness. This book aims to show that politics is always a way of imposing a delay against other timelines, both unveiled and covered by the state of exception.