English Explanatory Dictionary

state of exception

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.

Word forms

state of exception states of exception

Etymology

Calque of German Ausnahmezustand, primarily as used by the German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt; popularised in English by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the 1990s–2000s.

Related words

state of emergency state of siege
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