Autonomization of the Political within the Boundaries of Legal Reality

• Authors: Zhurbina Irina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores ways of defining the political within the framework of legal reality. The relevance of the research topic is due to modern processes of economic globalization, which contribute to the establishment of a neoliberal type of state that transforms the state of exception, turning the exceptional measure into a permanent management technology. Economic globalization raises anew the question of the specificity of the political. It is shown that the dual nature of the state of exception establishes two different ways of interpreting the political. In the first version, the political is defined through the legal boundary, where it relates to the state of full power of the sovereign and/or dictator (Schmitt). In the second version, the political is defined through the boundary indicating the state of exhaustion of legal competence, which corresponds to the situation of a lack of legal rights of homo sacer (Agamben).

Keywords

EN

state of exception; the political; absolute subject; sovereign; dictator; homo sacer; bare life

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2024
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 115-129

Contributors

author

Zhurbina Irina

• Department of History, Theory and Practice of Social Communications, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russian Federation.