Il faut désacraliser le roi : une lecture de la longévité au pouvoir du chef d’État en postcolonie à partir de l’exception de Giorgio Agamben
(2026)
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- (en) When a Head of State presents himself as the ultimate guardian of something that must be preserved at all costs, he begins to create the conditions for the abuse of power, apparatus for usurpation. Over time, he may assume the status of a sacred or untouchable figure, using his political role to place himself above ordinary citizens. In this sense, he becomes what political theory describes as the exceptio, a figure whose exceptional status is justified in the name of necessity. Through this process of appropriation, he shares with the figure of the homo sacer a common characteristic, that of a symbol of the original exclusion through which political authority and political order are created. This position allows the ruler to occupy the first truly political space, born out of the tension between order and chaos. It is a space marked by glory, prestige, and symbolic power. For democracy to function properly, however, the ruler must ultimately be removed from this sphere of sacredness and restored to the position of an ordinary citizen. Once desacralised, the ruler can lose an election like any other citizen and accept the result peacefully, because he no longer sees himself as above others, but simply as one citizen among others.
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Bidjeck Song, B. (2026). Il faut désacraliser le roi : une lecture de la longévité au pouvoir du chef d’État en postcolonie à partir de l’exception de Giorgio Agamben. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/277316