States of Exception or Exceptional States: Law, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East

Book Overview

This book explores the application of the work of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben to the post-Arab Uprisings in the Middle East, considering the evolution of regime-society relations that ultimately erupted in violence in the early months of 2011.
Agamben's ideas of the state of exception and bare life provide important intellectual tools to understand the nature of sovereignty and the regulation of life, which has largely been missing in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755642554
• ISBN13: 9780755642557
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"