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

by Saul Newman and John Lechte

Book Overview

Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics and condemned to "bare life"?

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474403050
• ISBN13: 9781474403054
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"