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Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence
John Lechte
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Hardcover. Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? This title argues that human rights are a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation in the face of a sovereign state of exception that has become global. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? We are living in world in which human rights are violated on an unprecedented scale, often by the very sovereign states who claim to protect them. According to Giorgio Agamben, this is no coincidence: he argues that human rights are actually a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation in the face of a sovereign state of exception that has become global. Taking Agamben's critique as their starting point, Lechte and Newman reveal the paradoxes central to the politics of human rights by exploring questions of ... Read more
Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? We are living in world in which human rights are violated on an unprecedented scale, often by the very sovereign states who claim to protect them. According to Giorgio Agamben, this is no coincidence: he argues that human rights are actually a sign of our growing powerlessness and political alienation in the face of a sovereign state of exception that has become global. Taking Agamben's critique as their starting point, Lechte and Newman reveal the paradoxes central to the politics of human rights by exploring questions of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748645725
SKU
V9780748645725
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About John Lechte
John Lechte is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University. Saul Newman is Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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