Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Liberty/Security Discourse and the Problem of the Exception 2. Freedom and Liberty in Classic Political Theory: Hobbes and Kant 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

About the Author

Andrew W. Neal is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. His PhD won the British International Studies Association best thesis prize in 2006.