This book addresses the relevance of the state of exception for the analysis of law; whilst reflecting on the deeper symbolic and jurisprudential significance of the coalescence between law and force.

Introduction Part 1 Law, theory and the logic of the exception 1. Exception, Fiction, Performativity (Gian Giacomo Fusco) 2. "Through a Glass, Darkly": Law, History and the Frontispiece of the Exception (Cosmin Cercel) 3. The Other Side of the Exception: Sovereignty, Modernity and International Law (Przemyslaw Tacik) 4. Minor Law: Notes Towards a Revolutionary Jurisprudence (Tormod Otter Johansen) 5. The Exception of the Norm in the Third Reich: Re(reading) the Nazi Constitutional State of Exception (Simon Lavis) Part 2 Histories of Exception 6. 'Norm' and 'Exception': From the Weimar Republic to the Nazi State Form (Dimitrios Kivotidis) 7. 'Our Fatherland Has Found Itself on the Verge of an Abyss':Poland's 1981 Martial Law, or the Unexpected Appearance of the State of Exception Under Actually Existing Socialism (Rafal Manko) 8. A State in Anomie: An Analysis of Modern Turkey's States of Exception (Ceylan Begüm Yildiz) 9. Beyond "the Most Serious Suspension of Rights" of Genoa: Violence, Anomie and Force (of Law) (Sara Raimondi) Afterword: Emergencies, Exceptions, Legalities (David Fraser)