States of Exception: Law, History, Theory (Law and Politics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367529068 ISBN 13: 9780367529062

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367529068
• ISBN 13: 9780367529062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Cercel Cosmin, Fusco Gian Giacomo, Lavis Simon