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

John Lechte; Saul Newman

Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights

Statelessness, Images, Violence

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John Lechte, Macquarie University, Saul Newman, Goldsmiths, University of London

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: September 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9780748677726

Subjects:: Philosophy, Political Philosophy

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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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Statelessness, Images, Violence

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Preface
pp vi-xi

Note
pp xii-xii

1 - Human Rights and Statelessness Today
pp 1-22

2 - Human Rights in History
pp 23-48

3 - Agamben and the Rise of ‘Bare Life’
pp 49-76

4 - Language, the Human and Bare Life: from Ungroundedness to Inoperativity
pp 77-95

5 - Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben
pp 96-118

6 - Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben
pp 119-138

7 - Agamben, the Image and the Human
pp 139-162

8 - Living Human Rights
pp 163-188

Bibliography
pp 189-198

Index
pp 199-202

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