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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 195–215.
Published: 01 February 2015
... the
Exceptionalism of American Exceptionalism,” Spanos traces the Bush
administration’s inauguration of the state of exception through one of its
intellectual advocates, Samuel Huntington, who invokes the Puritan ori-
gins of America’s founding of the “new world” in his attempts to explain the
basis...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 161–181.
Published: 01 November 2018
... exceptionalism Martin Heidegger Anarchy References Agamben Giorgio . 2005 . State of Exception . Translated by Attell Kevin . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Badiou Alain . 2007 . The Century . Translated by Toscano Alberto . Cambridge : Polity...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 87–109.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of advancement, the importance of demonstrative failure in study, and the orientation of study by exceptions and extremes. Kafkan Study
Brendan Moran
In his discussions of Franz Kafka’s writings, Benjamin develops a
conception of study...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 27–62.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of Exception ( Homo Sacer II.1 ), and The Kingdom and the Glory ( Homo Sacer II.2 ). Agamben's recent work, Profanations , is, however, not a part of that series. As its title indicates, it turns from the sacred to the profane, and in so doing reveals the most profound intentions of Agamben's philosophy...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 41–51.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., exploring the attractions of literary exemplarity for moral philosophy of several kinds since the 1960s but also the constrained terms under which the invitation to deep reflectiveness is permitted to operate. The essay then considers why many recent moral philosophers (with the partial exception of Bernard...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 127–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., by comparing criminals with “lower races,” it established race as the governing principle for reading criminal bodies; and second, it developed a host of practices combining biology and statistics to decipher criminal/racial bodies. By the turn of the century, somapolitics gained exceptional popularity across...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 25–61.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Ruth Y.Y. Hung More than ten years on from the 2008 financial crisis, two trends of global statism remain dominant: Beijing-led “exceptional neoliberalism” and the emerging “illiberal democracy” topped by Trumponomics, with racist populism looming at the back of both. Even though these persistent...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 181–198.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of humanitarianism and their routinization beyond the “exceptional” conditions of disaster and displacement have exemplified the broader social transformations producing that crisis of emancipatory politics. At once ideationally and materially, the story of humanitarianisms in recent decades is a tale...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 137–164.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of emergency and states of exception, this essay argues that equal attention needs to be paid to expressions and operations of ecofascism in the mundane places and practices of everyday life. Expanding beyond the geographic and historical specificities of Nazism and its transatlantic dialogue with North...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of resistance or nationalist anti‐eurocentrism. Though their work is little known except to scholars in Slavic Studies, in the years following the Russian Revolution of 1917 Soviet Orientologists laid the foundations for the critique of Western Orientalism that would be introduced to the West many years later...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 191–213.
Published: 01 August 2021
... as the creation of a state of exception based on the intensification of “the political” and on a shift in the “friend/enemy” paradigm, from a relationship between nation-states to an intranational relationship between the Spanish State and the Catalan pro-independence movement. 8. The Assemblea Nacional...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 August 2003
... to come.
The Bush administration has attempted to supplant the loss of the
belief in Virgin Land that underwrote U.S. exceptionalism with the arrogation
of the power to occupy the position of the exception...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 95–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., always against a particular idealization—among them the idea of interventionism as such. 2. With this, I am reacting against a certain American reception, where the humor, or satire, of Charles Bernstein's poetry gets foregrounded. Except that his “humor is so dark you can't see it,” it is also so...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 115–138.
Published: 01 February 2015
... calls for a persis-
tent antiamnesiac critical practice politically grounded in his analysis of the
state of exception in the global era. By explaining the connections between
the state of exception and American exceptionalism through Western meta-
physics, Spanos demonstrates how a metaphysics...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 1–42.
Published: 01 February 2020
... another exception and there are some instances in his work (for example, in his book on the nude) where this risk becomes real, and where Jullien writes about China as an exception (see Jullien 2007b: 55). However, this goes against the grain of his overall project, which under- mines the exceptionalism...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 163–199.
Published: 01 August 2006
...? 165
tive emphasis on one or the other of the two functions of executive power
as traditionally understood: the sovereign decision and the execution of the
law. A strict totalitarian regime loses sight of law altogether, in the name of
ever-fresh sovereign exceptions to duly constituted legal...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 145–169.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ] among his contemporaries, as in the union of all philosophical views of the world.” When “unique exception” (34, 69, 458, 485, 587) is not strong enough, he adds “great” (32, 33, 304). Most often Leibniz's exceptionality is presented in terms of European or “occidental” philosophy; sometimes, however...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 129–151.
Published: 01 May 2022
... (a key reference point, of course, for Gourgouris—see not only Lessons in Secular Criticism but also Does Literature Think? [ 2003 ]) into its modern, exceptional status, from its worldly, poietic understanding into its theological/modern exceptionalization. (Its key ideas are familiar...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 23–34.
Published: 01 February 2008
... then draws on Carl Schmitt’s work on the state of exception, argu-
ing that this is the “hidden foundation” on which the entire political system
rests. And he draws too on Schmitt’s idea of a “nomos of the Earth.” For
Schmitt, writing in April 1939, such a division of the Earth was desirable...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2005) 32 (3): 169–197.
Published: 01 August 2005
..., ‘‘Notes on the Theory of Dictatorship in The Democractic and Authori-
Meister / Anticipatory Regret 171
American exceptionalism but the fact that, even in America, democratic poli-
tics has two modes—one resembling economic competition in the market...
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