Abolishing Time and History: Lazarus and the Possibility of Thinking Political Events Outside Time

Calcagno, Antonio

doi:10.5195/jffp.2007.196

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“…The work of Sylvain Lazarus shows us how this might happen when we consider the legacy of the French Revolution in history and the law. 18 Although the law is conditioned by the event here, I wonder whether there can be another place for the law in Badiou's philosophy: Could the law itself be an event and, furthermore, if the law is an event, can it contradict the very logic of the event itself? In other words, with respect to my second question, can the law, understood as an event, establish another kind of logic, intensity of appearing or negation?…”

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Alain Badiou’s Suturing of the Law to the Event and the State of Exception

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2016

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This article questions whether we can posit a more radical desuturing of the law from the event: Can radical shifts in law produce events? Can the law itself be an event, thereby conditioning the very nature of the event itself, creating a new subjectivity and a new time? I would like to argue that the law can do so. How? Badiou begins “The Three Negations” by discussing the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt (TN 1877). I would like to argue that the state of exception, as elaborated by Carl Schmitt, can serve as the willed decision of a sovereign that brings about an event. We can understand the sovereign as a kind of legal subject that has the force to bring about a new event, rupturing with an established order and introducing a new form of subjectivity and time.

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