Etymology

state of exception

Today it means: A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority. Full definition →

German Ausnahmezustand
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  1. German · calque ofAusnahmezustand
  2. English todaystate of exception

Calque of German Ausnahmezustand, primarily as used by the German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt; popularised in English by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the 1990s–2000s.

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