RESENHA DO LIVRO ESTADO DE EXCEÇÃO, DE GIORGIO AGAMBEN
Abstract
“State of Exception” is one of nine books that make up the extensive project “Homo Sacer”, by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Its first edition (“Stato di Eccezione” in the original version) dates from 2003. The book presents concepts very dear to the author, fundamental for the understanding of even his most recent analyses, such as those contained in “Reflections on the Plague: essays in pandemic times” (AGAMBEN, 2020). For
Agamben, the situation of generalized panic and the suspension of the normal functioning of life during the pandemic (still at a stage closer to the epidemic as the author was writing) would confirm his diagnosis: the state of exception tends to become more and more a paradigm of government . The author writes: “the state of exception, to which governments accustomed us long ago, has really become the normal condition” (AGAMBEN, p. 19).