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noun
A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, law, philosophy, sciences
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History
Calque of German Ausnahmezustand, primarily as used by the German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt; popularised in English by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the 1990s–2000s.
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