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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. Special%20Issue / 2016  
         
  Article:   WATCHFULNESS AS A STATE OF EXCEPTION? WATCHFULNESS AND VIGILANCE: BETWEEN NORM AND EXCEPTION / LA VEILLE COMME ÉTAT D’EXCEPTION? «VEILLE POUR SOI» ET «VEILLE POUR L’AUTRE»: ENTRE NORME ET EXCEPTION.

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  Abstract:  Watchfulness as a State of Exception? Watchfulness and Vigilance: between Norm and Exception. It may be uncommon and irrelevant to characterize watchfulness as a state of exception. Watchfulness regards to a spiritual (at the Greeks) or to a religious (in Christianity) metaphysic, whereas the state of exception refers to political philosophy. But if we state, as Agamben, that the exception suspends its norm to reinforce its application, we should seek in which sense watchfulness, in its close bond to sleep and awakening, abolishes the positive experience of these last two, in order to redefine the intrinsic and powerful relationship of the subject with Humanity, through his possibilities within his soul’s obscurity for feeling Grace.

Keywords: watchfulness, exception, Boutang, grace, obscurity
 
         
     
         
         
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