Drake Caeneus
Teacher educated in critical theory, law, and English.
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Yes but a sense of protection at what cost? And how real is that protection?
Giorgio Agamben does important work looking at the real impact of the sovereign exception. He takes as his examples the concentration camps of Nazi Germany (which were contemporary to Schmitt’s defense of dictatorial power, no?) and the secret…
Yes. I would only add that the American liberal elites are not that far off from fitting your description. They sometimes talk a big talk, and maybe things are going to shift, but when it comes down to it, they are happy to rule like relevantly benevolent monarchs.
Isn’t this frightening? The exceptions the sovereign makes involve a suspension of rights, which means hurting people. I don’t think you’re wrong to trace the frame for this back to the church. Spot on, in fact. But it points to how we extend a kind of supernatural authority to governing bodies that do the inverse of Jesus: the secular legal…
The language choice was intentional. My position, which is the only way to honor him for who his is, is that my husband was always really a man and my husband. I can imagine how that could be confusing and, if it still is, I suggest checking out one of the links in the article.