Contents
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The liberty/security discourse and the problem of the exception; 2 Freedom and liberty in classic political theory; 3 Carl Schmitt and the politics of the exception; 4 Giorgio Agamben's exception: 'The great historico-transcendental destiny of the Occident; 5 Securitization theory: Practices of sovereign naming; 6 Foucault in Guantanamo: Towards an archaeology of the exception; 7 The rise and fall of Schmitt at the hands of Foucault and others; Notes; Bibliography; Index.