The New State of Exception: The Political and Social Implications of Globalized Insecurities - General bibliography

WP1: The New State of Exception: The Political and Social Implications of Globalized Insecurities

Partner Institutions:

University of Keele (Rob Walker) and King’s College London (Vivienne Jabri)

Research Assistants: Andrew Neal (Keele) and Claudia Aradau (King’s College)

Five particularly significant books for the research

Giorgio Agamben, The State of Exception (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Critical engagement with Schmitt’s concept of exception through a re-reading of Walter Benjamin. Agamben explores the disturbing potential that the ‘exception’ has entailed for legal debates and legal order and shows exceptionalism to be more ambiguous than Schmitt’s theory indicates.

Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, trans David Macey (Allen Lane, 2003).

Conceptul framework for analysing societal relations and the violence that ‘civil peace’ has hidden. Using ‘war’ as an analyser of social relations, Foucault traces the on-going ‘war of the races’ and its transformation into ‘state racism’ with the inclusion of life within the realm of politics. As the chapter on the French revolution indicates, the birth of state racism is also linked with the creation of the nation-state as a bearer of universality.

Franz Neuman and Otto Kirchheimer, The Rule of Law under Siege. Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, edited by William E. Scheuerman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

Neumann and Kirchheimer offer a leftist critique of Schmitt; they consider resistance against the state and the role of the economic in relation to the ‘rule of law’ and Schmitt’s decisionist state.

Carl Schmitt, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes. Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol,trans. By George Schwab and Erna Hilfstein (London: Greenwood Press, 1996)

The book sheds light on the implications that Schmitt’s theory of the state; important background for understanding the implications of ‘exceptionalism’ and sovereignty in his framework.

Etienne Balibar, We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Balibar’s book combines an interrogation of the speculative concepts used in political philosophy (including a discussion of Schmitt) with a ‘clinical’ analysis of current challenges and evolutions in Europe, namely the new forms of ‘apartheid’, exclusion and racism.

General Bibliography

Agamben, Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life,trans. By Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).

Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism (London, 1967).

Arendt, Hannah., On violence (London: The Penguin Press, 1970).

Badiou, Alain, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, trans. Louise Burchill (Minneapolis and London: University of Minneapolis Press, 2000).

Balibar, Etienne, Les frontières de la démocratie (Paris: La Découverte, 1992).

Balibar, Etienne, Masses, classes, and ideas. Studies on politics and philosophy before and after Marx (London: Routledge, 1994).

Balibar, Etienne, Politics and the other scene (London: Verso, 2002).

Barry, Andrew, Osborne, Thomas and Rose, Nikolas, Foucault and Political Reason(London: UCL Press, 1996).

Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1989).

Burchell, Graham, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, eds., The Foucault effect. Studies in governmentality. (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991).

Butler, Judith, ‘Explanation and Exoneration’, Theory and Event, Vol. 5 No 4 (2002).

Butler, Judith, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London and New York: Verso, 2004).

Campbell, David, Politics Without Principle (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993).

Campbell, David, Writing Security(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998).

Davidson , Arnold I. (ed.), Foucault and His Interlocutors(London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Dean, Mitchell, Governmentality (London: Sage, 1999).

Doyle, Michael, Ways of War and Peace (New York, 1997).

Deleuze, Gilles, Foucault, trans. Sean Hand (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

Gilles Deleuze, ‘What is a Dispositif?’, in T.J. Armstrong (ed.), Michel Foucault: philosopher (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992).

Giddens, Anthony, The Nation-State and Violence (London: Polity, 1985).

Evans, P.B., Rueschemeyer, D., and Skocpol, T. (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985).

Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (London: Penguin Books, 1977).

Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilisation, trans. Richard Howard (Routledge, London and New York, 2001).

Foucault, Michel, Power, the Essential Works, Vol. 3, edited by James D. Faubion (London: Allen Lane, 2000).

Foucault, Michel, The Will to Knowledge, History of Sexuality, Vol.1, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin Books, London, 1990).

Foucault, Michel, The Use of Pleasure, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2, translated by Robert Hurley (London: Penguin Books, 1992).

Foucault, Michel, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, Vol 1 of Essential Works of Foucault, edited by Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1997).

Foucault, Michel, Power/Knowledge, edited by Colin Gordon (The Harvester Press, 1980).

Foucault, Michel, ‘Governmentality’. In The Foucault effect:Studies in governmentality, ed. Peter Miller:87-104. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

Foucault, Michel, Sécurité, territoire, population. Cours au collège de france, 1977-1978. (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2004).

Foucault, Michel, Naissance de la biopolitique. Cours au collège de france, 1978-1979. ’hautes etudes’. Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2004.

Habermas, Jurgen, The Inclusion of the Other (Polity, 1998).

Beatrice Hanssen, Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).

Hardt, Michael and Negri, Toni, Empire (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, 2000).

Hardt, Michael and Negri, Toni, Multitude (Hamish Hamilton, 2004).

Hindess, Barry, ‘The liberal government of unfreedom’. Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance 2001 26, no. 1: 93-111.

Huysmans, Jef, ‘The question of the limit: Desecuritisation and the aesthetics of horror in political realism’. Millennium 1998 27, no. 3: 569-589.

Horkheimer, Max and Adorno, Theodor, The Dialectic of Enlightenment (Verso, 1997).

Kirchheimer, Otto and Neumann, Franz, Social Democracy and the Rule of Law(London: Allen & Unwin, 1987).

Hobbes ,Thomas, Leviathan (Penguin, 1968).

Jabri, Vivienne, Discourses on Violence (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996).

Joas, Hans, War and Modernity (Polity, 2003).

Keane, John, Reflections on Violence(Verso, 1996).

Keane, John, Violence and Democracy (Cambridge, 2003).

Kelsen, Hans, General Theory of Law and State, trans Anders Wedberg (Cambridge 1945).

Neumann, Franz L, The democratic and the authoritarian state. New York: The Free Press, 1964.

Rancière, Jacques, Disagreement. Politics and philosophy. Translated by Julie Rose. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Jacques Ranciere, ‘Who is the subject of the rights of man?’, South Atlantic Quarterly 2004 103, no. 2/3: 297-310.

Schmitt, Carl, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concepts of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985).

Skinner, Quentin, ‘States and the freedom of citizens’. In States and citizens. History, theory, prospects, ed. Skinner, Quentin and Strath, Bo:11-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Simons, Jon, Foucault and the Political (London and New York: Routledge, 1995).

Walker, R.B.J., Inside/Outside: international relations as political theory (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993).

Žižek, Slavoj, Welcome to the desert of the real! Five essays on september 11 and related dates. (London: Verso, 2002).

Danilo Zolo, Invoking Humanity (Continuum: New York, 2002).