Emergency Politics

Paradox, Law, Democracy

Bonnie Honig

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A more democratic response to political emergencies

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of the rule of law or demanding that law rather than force be used to resolve conflicts with enemies. But are these the only options? Or are there more democratic ways to respond to invocations of emergency politics? Looking at how emergencies in the past and present have shaped the development of democracy, Bonnie Honig argues that democracies must resist emergency's pull to focus on life's necessities (food, security, and bare essentials) because these tend to privatize and isolate citizens rather than bring us together on behalf of hopeful futures. Emphasizing the connections between mere life and more life, emergence and emergency, Honig argues that emergencies call us to attend anew to a neglected paradox of democratic politics: that we need good citizens with aspirational ideals to make good politics while we need good politics to infuse citizens with idealism.

Honig takes a broad approach to emergency, considering immigration politics, new rights claims, contemporary food politics and the infrastructure of consumption, and the limits of law during the Red Scare of the early twentieth century. Taking its bearings from Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and other Jewish thinkers, this is a major contribution to modern thought about the challenges and risks of democratic orientation and action in response to emergency.

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Decisionism, George Kateb, Governance, Accountability, Rationality, Torture, Philosophy, Slow Food, Political philosophy, Suffering, Thought, Institution, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Precommitment, Suffrage, Activism, Constitutionalism, Rule of law, Ambiguity, Exclusion, God, Westphalian sovereignty, Politics, Critique, State of exception, Form of life (philosophy), The Social Contract, Administrative discretion, Popular sovereignty, Rule of man, Democracy, Morality, Deliberation, Rights, Injunction, Paradox, Discretion, Hannah Arendt, Constitutional patriotism, Due process, Narrative, Legitimacy (political), Freedom of speech, Consideration, Theology, Moses Mendelssohn, Multitude, Political theology, Heteronomy, Liberal democracy, Citizenship, Food politics, Seyla Benhabib, Franz Rosenzweig, Carl Schmitt, Sovereignty, Jacques Derrida, State of nature, Bernard Williams, Explanation, Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, Requirement, Theory, Criticism, Legitimation, Liberalism, Utilitarianism, Giorgio Agamben, Democratic ideals