Reviews

State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben

wyliem's review

challenging informative slow-paced

2.0

deliunirvana's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

patrick_habecker's review

challenging slow-paced

4.0

reemable's review

5.0

للمرة الثانية كتاب نظرية سياسية. ليس تمامًا في الواقع فهو ينطلق من منظور قانوني بشكل كبير ..
المهم
مرة ثانية ، النصوص "النظرية" لا تُفهم من مرة واحدة
له عدة قراءات أخرى بالتأكيد مع باقي كتابات أغامبين
ممتنة لمناقشته مع د.هبة و للاقتراح من الأصل

joeri's review

4.0

This short book of Agamben can help us become sensitive and critical for incurrences of states of exception: a state where the law is suspended by the soevereign in order to become a killing machine or to forcefully push through certain measurements, be they social, political or economic. It reminds us that whenever a sovereign, i.e. a politician or other executives, call of a situation of emergency and state that certain measures are necessary, we must be aware that this seemingly founding of a situation on objective grounds, is actually none other than the subjective political and moral evaluation of the soevereign in question.

The book gives a timely analysis of the state of exception, but the writing is not very accesible.