Agamben and the politics of human rights : statelessness, images, violence / John Lechte and Saul Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lechte, John.

Contributor:

Newman, Saul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statelessness.

Human rights--Political aspects.

Human rights.

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-.

Agamben, Giorgio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Human 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748689163

0748689168

9780748677726

0748677720

OCLC:

1291506751