Sovereign and State of Exception: objections to Agamben's Interpretation of Schmitt
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v2i37p63-71Keywords:
Agamben, Schmitt, Bodin, Soberania, Lei, ExceçãoAbstract
This article discusses Giorgio Agamben´s interpretation of the sovereign´s paradoxical position, since the sovereign would be inside and outside the legal system at same time. It aims to show that this interpretation – through Carl Schmitt´s concept of the state of exception – does not hold. Agamben weakens Schmitt's legal thought to emphasis a theory of exception, and transfers the paradoxical position of the state of exception to the sovereign
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