Summary
Legal theorist on sovereignty and the ‘decision’ on the state of emergency, whose writings Giorgio Agamben draws on for the topology of the exception as David Lloyd presents it: the exception is at once in the law and outside it, and repeats the violence in which the state is constituted (Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, PDF p.15 / printed p.73).
Details
- “For Agamben, drawing here on Carl Schmitt’s writings on sovereignty and the ‘decision’ on the state of emergency with reference to European state and legal theory, this topology of the exception is principally theoretical and poses a set of questions regarding the constitutive role of the suspension of the law in the very foundation of the law itself” (PDF p.15 / printed p.73).
- Note 37 adds that Agamben sees Schmitt’s thinking of the exception as involved in a dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s 1921 ‘Critique of Violence’ (PDF p.21).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin