The fight against terrorism has undergone major changes over the past thirty years. These changes have often been interpreted as a manifestation of “exceptionalism,” a trend that should be criticized for undermining the rule of law. We agree with this diagnosis but want to take a further step by acknowledging that this critical relationship to developments in counterterrorism is an integral part of the social processes to be studied. To this end, our approach places knowledge production at the heart of the scientific study of the fight against terrorism. We aim to understand how the so-called enemy criminal law—a legal dogmatic undertaking that has been used in various settings to reflect on the issue of counterterrorism—has gradually evolved from an objectivist analysis to a critical resource, without its axiomatics having fundamentally changed. With the help of what, in France, is called the “sociologie des epreuves,” we show that this transformation has been achieved through the confrontation of the doctrine with different sociopolitical contexts. We aim to document and help explain this unique trajectory from a sociology of knowledge perspective.

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刑法的“敌人化”？法律学的社会学及其政治和道德基础探究

在过去的三十年中，打击恐怖主义的斗争发生了重大变化。这些变化通常被解释为“例外主义”的体现，这种趋势应因破坏法治而受到批评。我们同意这一诊断，但希望进一步采取行动，承认与反恐发展的关键关系是要研究的社会进程的组成部分。为此，我们的方法将知识生产置于反恐科学研究的核心。我们旨在了解所谓的敌对刑法（一种在各种情况下用于反恐问题的法律教条式承诺）如何从客观主义分析逐渐演变为关键资源，而其公理学却没有从根本上改变。在法国所谓的“社会进步”的帮助下，我们表明，这种转变是通过该学说与不同社会政治背景的对立而实现的。我们旨在从知识社会学的角度记录并帮助解释这一独特的轨迹。