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A more democratic response to political emergenciesThis 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 infu

Who reads Emergency Politics : Paradox, Law, Democracy?

Author

Bonnie Honig

Publisher

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691142982

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Political Science, Military, Fiction

Rating

3.93 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14