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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aK7128.S7
_bL43 2013
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100 1 _aLechte, John,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAgamben and the politics of human rights :
_bstatelessness, images, violence /
_cJohn Lechte and Saul Newman.
246 3 _aAgamben & the Politics of Human Rights
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aHuman Rights and Statelessness Today -- Human Rights in History -- Agamben and the Rise of 'Bare Life' -- Language, the Human and Bare Life : from Ungroundedness to Inoperativity -- Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben -- Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben -- Agamben, the Image and the Human -- Living Human Rights.
520 _aHuman 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.
600 1 0 _aAgamben, Giorgio,
_d1942-
650 0 _aStatelessness.
650 0 _aStateless persons
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_xPolitical aspects.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aNewman, Saul,
_eauthor.
710 2 _aCambridge eBooks.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780748645725
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