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States of exception everyday life and postcolonial identity / by Ganguly, Keya

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State of exception cultural responses to the rhetoric of fear /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. State of exception : theory and practice -- pt. 2. State of exception : from history to literature -- pt. 3. …”
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The exceptionalist state and the state of exception : Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…The late Melville and his historical occasion: prolegomenon to a re-reading of Billy Budd, sailor -- The criticism of Billy Budd, sailor: a counter-history -- Billy Budd: a symptomatic reading -- American exceptionalism and the state of exception after 9/11/01: Melville's proleptic witness.…”
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Democracy, law and the modernist avant-gardes writing in the state of exception / by Bru, Sascha

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Human rights in the United States beyond exceptionalism /

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Sovereignty in Ruins : A Politics of Crisis /

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the state of exception : Hegel on freedom, law, and decision /…”
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Bending Opinion : Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain /

Table of Contents: “…Symbolic Power: Political Rhetoric in a State of Exception /…”
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Sacred Men : Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam / by Camacho, Keith L.

Table of Contents: “…The state of exception -- War bodies -- War crimes -- The bird and the lizard -- Native assailants -- Native murderers -- The military colony -- Japanese traitors -- Japanese militarists.…”
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The possibility of an absolute architecture by Aureli, Pier Vittorio

Table of Contents: “…Nolli's Nuova Pianta di Roma -- Architecture as a state of exception : Étienne-Louis Boullée's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.…”
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Empire of Liberty : Power, Desire, and Freedom / by Bogues, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Empire of liberty : desire, power, and the states of exception -- "Race, historical trauma, and democracy : the politics of a historical wrong" -- "Death, power, violence, and new sovereignties? …”
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Glory and agony Isaac's sacrifice and national narrative / by Feldman, Yael S., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…: the Isaac generation, 1967-1973 -- Manic Abrahams vs. women's peace, 1975-1995 -- Afterword : a state of exception: a view from the present.…”
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Collective mobilisations in Africa : enough is enough! /

Table of Contents: “…When social minorities demonstrate/Quand des minorités sociales manifestent -- Part 3. Violence and state of exception/Violence et état d'exception.…”
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Radical justice Spain and the Southern Cone beyond market and state / by Martín-Cabrera, Luis, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The transatlantic circulation of terror: reflections of the paradoxes of political dissapearence -- The politics of melancholia: hardboiled fiction as a parable of the state of exception -- Gazing at the real: trauma and repetition in contemporary documentaries from Spain and the Southern Cone -- Towards a model of global justice? …”
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Forging a multinational state : state making in imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War / by Deák, John (John David)

Table of Contents: “…The dynamics of Austrian governance, 1780-1848 -- The madness of Count Stadion, or, Austria between revolution and reaction -- The reforging of the Habsburg state, 1849-1859 -- State building on a new track : Austria in the 1860s -- The years of procedure, 1868-1900 -- Bureaucracy and democracy in the final decades of the monarchy, 1890-1914 -- Epilogue : the state of exception : Austria's descent into the twentieth century.…”
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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…-- Digital revolution -- High weirdness in the American hinterlands -- The satanic panic of late-twentieth-century America -- Illuminatiphobia -- The Christian illuminati -- The American state of exception -- Rendering to the secular arm -- Berdyaev's insight -- Dostoevsky revisited -- Berdyaev on inquisitional psychopathology -- Totalitarianism of the left and of the right -- The betrayal of humanity -- It can happen here -- Conclusion : disorder as order -- Böhme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave.…”
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The cultural contradictions of democracy political thought since September 11 / by Brenkman, John

Table of Contents: “…-- Leviathan -- The neoconservative illusion -- The frailty of human affairs -- Crises of the republic -- The argument -- Seized by power -- Death and the governor of Texas -- The new American exceptionalism -- The cold warrior myth -- Kant with Arendt -- Targeting Iraq -- Al Qaeda and ultimate ends -- A grammar of motives -- The imagination of power -- State of exception -- Arendt versus Agamben -- Schmitt and Hobbes -- Decision and covenant -- The ordeal of universalism -- September 11 and fables of the left -- First response -- Multilateral ambivalence -- Terrorism as symptom -- Chomskian certitudes -- Hardt and Negri's Empire -- The multitude and prophecy -- Iraq : delirium of war, delusions of peace -- The idealism of means -- The idealism of ends -- Neither left nor right -- The Atlantic misalliance -- Diplomatic intrigues and political truths -- Repudiations of the UN left and right -- The Hobbesian nightmare : occupied Iraq -- The ordeal of universalism -- Democracy and war -- Postnational cosmopolitanism versus liberal nationalism? …”
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Courting the media contemporary perspectives on media and law /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "mediating mediation" -- Mediated forensic : from classroom to courtroom / Shaeda Isani and Geoffrey Sykes -- The man in the gallery with the writing on his face : depictions of the audience at the Diana Inquest / Graham White -- The Fate of the iconic sign : taser video / Christina Speisel -- The mechanical eye : looking, seeing, photographing, publishing / David Rolph -- "Your words against mine" : states of exception in popular legal culture / Per-Anders Forstorp -- Media as mathematics : calculating justice / Geoffrey Sykes -- Indiana Jones and the illicit trafficking and repatriation of cultural objects / Shea Esterling.…”
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Shock and Awe : American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court / by Spanos, William V.

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Of Elephants and Toothaches : Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue' /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Decalogue four: "The Mother Up in Smoke, or "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" / Gabriella Ripa di Meana -- Decalogue five: a short film about killing, sin, and community / Michael Baur -- States of exception: politics and poetics in Decalogue six / Eva Badowska -- Decalogue seven: a tale of love, failing words, and moving images / Francesca Parmeggiani -- Decalogue eight: childhood, emotion, and the shoah / Emma Wilson -- Divine possession: metaphysical covetousness in Decalogue nine / Philip Sicker -- Laughter makes good neighbors: sociability and the comic in Decalogue ten / Regina Small.…”
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The Funambulist Pamphlets 11: Cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinema papers -- La Haine: Banlieue and police -- Paris is burning: gender, sexuality, and race's performativity -- Coriolanus: state of exception -- World War Z: the zombie is a human you have the right to kill -- The act of killing: what constitutes the act of killing? …”
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