Agamben and the politics of human rights : statelessness, images, violence /

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? This book reveals the paradoxes central to the politics of human rights by exploring questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of security and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Lechte, John (Autor), Newman, Saul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, Ã2013.
Temas:
Agamben, Giorgio, > 1942-
Statelessness.
Stateless persons.
Human rights > Political aspects.
Apatridie.
Apatrides.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Aspect politique.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
PHILOSOPHY / Political
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Preface; Note; 1 Human Rights and Statelessness Today; 2 Human Rights in History; 3 Agamben and the Rise of 'Bare Life'; 4 Language, the Human and Bare Life: from ungroundedness to inoperativity; 5 Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben; 6 Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben; 7 Agamben, the Image and the Human; 8 Living Human Rights; Bibliography; Index.

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