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May 14, 2008International Political Sociology208 citations

The Jargon of Exception—On Schmitt, Agamben and the Absence of Political Society

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JHJef Huysmans

Key Points

  • This analysis focuses on how the jargon of exception impacts modern democratic politics and societal understanding.
  • Literature review of political theory focusing on key texts by Schmitt and Agamben.
  • Analysis of political discourse in Europe, the United States, and Australia.
  • Identified the suppression of political societal renditions as a key characteristic of the jargon.
  • Revealed that this suppression contributes to a distorted understanding of political processes.

Abstract

The idiom of exception is again central to the politics of insecurity in Europe, the United States, and Australia. One of the key characteristics of the jargon of exception is its suppression of political renditions of the societal. In doing so, it eliminates one of the constituting categories of modern democratic politics, hence producing an impoverished and ultimately illusionary understanding of the processes of political contestation and domination.

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Jef Huysmans (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a01c6850ed7d2e5335c99ebhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00042.x
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