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state of exception en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Ausnahmezustand, primarily as used by the German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt; popularised in English by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the 1990s–2000s.

Meanings

  1. A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.
    • Out of such rhetoric emerged an American state of exception, and with it, the disturbing outlines of inquisitorial behavior. 2006, Arthur Versluis, The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism, page 127:
    • The progressive normalization of the state of exception has eroded rule-bound procedures that give substance to conventional regulatory regimes. 2017, Martin J. Murray, The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century, page 311:
    • Regardless of how we conceive of them, rights are just abstract entitlements that, given a state of exception, can be suspended at will by the very same states that profess a belief in the universality and inalienability of these rights! 2010, Flora Sapio, Sovereign Power and the Law in China, page 252:

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Relateds

state of siege · state of emergency

Translations (3)

cmn 例外狀態 /例外状态 (suspension of ordinary laws) · fr état d'exception (suspension of ordinary laws) · es estado de excepción (suspension of ordinary laws)

wikipedia: Carl Schmitt · wikipedia: Giorgio Agamben