Alain Badiou’s Suturing of the Law to the Event and the State of Exception

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ID6155045
AuthorsAntonio Calcagno (0009-0002-4468-5278, King's University College, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume24
Issue1
Pages192-204
Publication date2016-10-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2155-1162 • E-ISSN: 2155-1162
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/jffp.2016.712
OpenAlexW2531787200
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited3

This article questions whether we can posit a more radical desuturing of the law from the event: Can radical shifts in law produce events? Can the law itself be an event, thereby conditioning the very nature of the event itself, creating a new subjectivity and a new time? I would like to argue that the law can do so. How? Badiou begins “The Three Negations” by discussing the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt (TN 1877). I would like to argue that the state of exception, as elaborated by Carl Schmitt, can serve as the willed decision of a sovereign that brings about an event. We can understand the sovereign as a kind of legal subject that has the force to bring about a new event, rupturing with an established order and introducing a new form of subjectivity and time

Epistemology · Event (particle physics · German · Linguistics · Negation · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · State of exception · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

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