State of exception
Giorgio Agamben, Kevin Attell (Translator)
A noted Italian philosopher examines emergency measures such as the Bush administration's indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, arguing that such policies, rather than being pragmatic and temporary necessities, has become a customary method of governments seeking to circumvent the rule of law, and has the dangerous potential of transforming democracies into dictatorships
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005