Agamben strips her after the Uruguayan dictatorship: Uruguayan exceptionality, legal political praxis of Uruguay 1968-2011

Abstract

This article is a collaborative praxis between history and law. We think about our immediate past through two areas of knowledge, which usually have points of contact. We propose to think, to study how Uruguay has incorporated exceptionality, as a distinctive feature used by the pre-dictatorial government, the dictatorship and the first decades of democracy. To this end, Agamben's contribution will be fundamental to our future. In short, we present an analysis of exceptionality through the contributions of the Italian philosopher, when he studies one of the Roman antecedents of the state of exception in his works Homo sacer in terms of actions in Uruguay between 1985-2009. For this purpose, a set of laws approved post-1985 will be analyzed, which dialogue with the motives and actions of the civil-military dictatorship once it ended.