Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics and condemned to 'bare life'?GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645725','ISBN:9780748677726','ISBN:9780748677740']);Human rights are in crisis today. Everywhere one...

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Main Author: Lechte, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2021]
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
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Summary:Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics and condemned to 'bare life'?GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645725','ISBN:9780748677726','ISBN:9780748677740']);Human rights are in crisis today. Everywhere one looks, there is violence, deprivation, and oppression, which human rights norms seem powerless to prevent. This book investigates the roots of the current crisis through the thought of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben. Human rights theory and practice must come to grips with key problems identified by Agamben - the violence of the sovereign state of exception and the reduction of humanity to 'bare' life. Any renewal of human rights today must involve breaking decisively with the traditional coordinates of Western political thought and instead affirm a new understanding of life and political action.
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (216 pages) 4 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9780748677726
DOI:10.1515/9780748677726