States of Exception or Exceptional States by Simon Mabon, San... - 9780755626427

States of Exception or Exceptional StatesLaw, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East\nAuthor(s): Simon Mabon, Sanaa Al Sarghali, Adel Ruished\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9780755626427, 978-0755626427\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the application of the work of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben to the post-Arab Uprisings in the Middle East, considering the evolution of regime-society relations that ultimately erupted in violence in the early months of 2011. \nAgambens ideas of the state of exception and bare life provide important intellectual tools to understand the nature of sovereignty and the regulation of life, which has largely been missing in the study of the region. Filling a theoretical and empirical gap by exploring the concept of the state of exception via a multidisciplinary approach, Simon Mabon, Sanaa Alsarghali and contributors in the fields of political science, law and philosophy offer .