Estado de excepción

*State of Exception* focuses on one of the central concepts in Agamben’s work: that moment within the law when the law itself is suspended—precisely to guarantee its continuity and even its existence—and that interval (ostensibly temporary) during which the legal order is suspended, yet which has evolved into a permanent form of government over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Agamben reconstructs the history of the concept of the state of exception, analyzes its significance in Western politics, and reflects on its contemporary relevance.