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An die Adresse des Publikums. Parabase und politische Theologie in HOUSE OF CARDS

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The present paper examines the Netflix series HOUSE OF CARDS
(2013 ff.) for a political critique of situations of exception. In opposition to Christian
Kirchmeier’s article in the same issue, this text argues that the series can only
deal with the legitimation of authority in parliamentary democracy in the logic of
O. Jahraus ()
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80799 München, Deutschland
E-Mail: oliver.jahraus@germanistik.uni-muenchen.de
350 O. Jahraus
exception. With the use of certain theoretical conceptions, for example the conception
of legitimation by procedure [Legitimation als Verfahren] within the early
systems theory of Niklas Luhmann, the definition of souvereignty by Carl Schmitt
which was radicalised by a logic of exception by Giorgio Agamben, a version of a
(even apocalyptical) political theology by Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin or Ernst
H. Kantorowicz. The paper focuses on the gesture of a parabasis and its function to
address and to create a political audience

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