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Thresholds: Sovereignty and the Sacred

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Agamben Giorgio, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 199 pages. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.

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Nasser Hussain  and
Melissa Ptacek
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Law & Society Review , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , 2000 , pp. 495 - 515
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