States of Exception: Law, History, Theory
Book Title: States of Exception: Law, History, Theory
Authors: Cosmin Cercel, Gian Giacomo Fusco, Simon Lavis
Cosmin Cercel: Professor, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law, Ghent University https://research.ugent.be/web/person/cosmin-cercel-0/en
Gian Giacomo Fusco: Lecturer in law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent https://www.kent.ac.uk/kent-law-school/people/1392/fusco-gian-giacomo
Simon Lavis: Senior lecturer in law at the Open University Law School https://profiles.open.ac.uk/simon-lavis
Book Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 21 July 2020
Book Citation: Cercel, C.; Fusco, G.; Lavis, S. States of Exception: Law, History, Theory, Routledge, 21 July 2020 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022296
Abstract: 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.
The book can be purchased https://www.routledge.com/States-of-Exception-Law-History-Theory/Cercel-Fusco-Lavis/p/book/9780429022296, and a PDF version is available from Northeastern University London online here.
