Summary
Writer whose ‘Critique of Violence’ (1921) and ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ frame two points in David Lloyd’s use of the State of Exception: Agamben sees Carl Schmitt’s thinking of the exception as in dialogue with Benjamin on violence and law-making, and Israel, Lloyd argues, permanently imposes the state of exception Benjamin found to be the historical norm for the oppressed (Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, PDF p.15, 18 / printed p.73, 76).
Details
- Note 37: “Agamben sees Schmitt’s thinking of the exception as involved in a dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s 1921 essay, ‘Critique of Violence’, which elaborates the relation between violence and ‘law-making’” (PDF p.21, citing Benjamin’s Reflections (1978), pp.283-287, and Agamben, State of Exception, pp.52-64).
- “Israel permanently imposes that state of exception that Benjamin found to be the historical norm for the oppressed” (PDF p.18 / printed p.76, citing ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’, in Illuminations (1968), p.257).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt