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state of exception

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.

  1. derived from jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt; popularised in English by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the 1990s–2000s
  2. derived from Ausnahmezustand

Definitions

  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.
    • 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!
    • The progressive normalization of the state of exception has eroded rule-bound procedures that give substance to conventional regulatory regimes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA