New Normality? - Abstract #2

Marie Goupy: The State of Exception Theory of Carl Schmitt and the Ambivalent Criticism of Liberalism Against the classical approach of the state of exception—which tends to assume that the state of exception is the correlate of every constitutional State—this paper argues that this concept has to be apprehended in its contemporary specificity. It first emerged during the interwar period in legal doctrines concerning emergency powers, in the context of a crisis of the parliamentary system. Bu..