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Must Exceptionalism Prove the Rule? An Angle on Emergency Government in the History of Political Thought

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  • Nomi Claire Lazar

    (Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, 5845 S. Ellis Avenue, Room 305, Chicago, IL 60637; 203-641-6473 nclazar@uchicago.edu)

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Discussions of the problem of emergency powers often assume that norms and exceptions constitute its conceptual structure. This perspective is both self-undermining and dangerous. Because even the critics of emergency powers often rely on this dichotomy, clarifying the conceptual terrain might contribute to the development of a safer approach to emergencies. Hence, this article explores the origins and logic of modern exceptionalism by examining instances of its careful articulation in the history of political thought: in the “republican†exceptionalism of Machiavelli and Rousseau and the “decisionist†exceptionalism of Schmitt and Hobbes.

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  • Nomi Claire Lazar, 2006. "Must Exceptionalism Prove the Rule? An Angle on Emergency Government in the History of Political Thought," Politics & Society, , vol. 34(2), pages 245-275, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:34:y:2006:i:2:p:245-275
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329205285406
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