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State of Exception : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226009254 : 0226009254 : 15 Jan 2005 : Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception,"" has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential ..."
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Blackwell
Distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the unusual extensions of executive power seized during states of emergency, a historically underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into...
- 0226009254
- 9780226009254
- G Agamben
- 14 January 2005
- Chicago University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 104
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