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Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights : Statelessness, Images, Violence / John Lechte, Saul Newman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 4 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748645725
  • 9780748677726
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.48
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- NOTE -- Chapter 1 Human Rights and Statelessness Today -- Chapter 2 Human Rights in History -- Chapter 3 Agamben and the Rise of 'Bare Life' -- Chapter 4 Language, the Human and Bare Life: FROM UNGROUNDEDNESS TO INOPERATIVITY -- Chapter 5 Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben -- Chapter 6 Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben -- Chapter 7 Agamben, the Image and the Human -- Chapter 8 Living Human Rights -- Bibliography -- Index
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."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- NOTE -- Chapter 1 Human Rights and Statelessness Today -- Chapter 2 Human Rights in History -- Chapter 3 Agamben and the Rise of 'Bare Life' -- Chapter 4 Language, the Human and Bare Life: FROM UNGROUNDEDNESS TO INOPERATIVITY -- Chapter 5 Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben -- Chapter 6 Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben -- Chapter 7 Agamben, the Image and the Human -- Chapter 8 Living Human Rights -- Bibliography -- Index

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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."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)