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Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights
Statelessness, Images, Violence
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2013
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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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Contents
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Preface
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NOTE
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Chapter 1 Human Rights and Statelessness Today
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Chapter 2 Human Rights in History
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Chapter 3 Agamben and the Rise of ‘Bare Life’
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Chapter 4 Language, the Human and Bare Life: FROM UNGROUNDEDNESS TO INOPERATIVITY
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Chapter 5 Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben
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Chapter 6 Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben
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Chapter 7 Agamben, the Image and the Human
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Chapter 8 Living Human Rights
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Bibliography
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Index
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Politics
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