State of exception : cultural responses to the rhetoric of fear / edited by Elena Bellina, Paola Bonfazio.

In a globalized world exposed to ever more dramatic dangers, the established legal order enters into crisis and the rhetoric of fear is deployed in order to legitimate states of exception. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has widely elaborated on the historical effects of the juridical concept of...

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Other Authors: Bellina, Elena, Bonfazio, Paola
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
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