Abstract:
The infection of New Coronavirus pneumonia in the world is dragging more and more countries into the state of exception. Reviewing the theory of exceptional states in the West. Schmit’s theory of sovereignty decision gives the sovereign unlimited power, but it is criticized for its easy to lead to totalitarianism. Agamben criticizes that the state of exception has become the field of Bare Life, but he seldom discussed the objectivity and necessity of the exceptional state. Ackerman designed a restrictive institutional framework for exception, but the practicality of his theory is questionable. This paper points out that the exception state is essentially a special mode of power operation. When a state needs to use power to overcome the crisis, the inappropriate silence of power may still create another state of exception. Since the outbreak of New Coronavirus pneumonia, some countries are providing this new exception state sample, that is, when power is needed to function, power is not acting or deciding. This kind of policy is trapped in the greater risk of the public, forming an “exceptional state” without exception.
