{"product_id":"9781474403054-agamben-and-the-politics-of-human-rights","title":"Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStatelessness, Images, Violence\u003cbr\u003eTaking Agamben's critique as a starting point, the authors reveal the paradoxes central to the politics of human rights by exploring questions of statelessness, exclusion and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants in the media.\u003cbr\u003eHuman 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944487792737,"sku":"9781474403054","price":25.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41683891_795d9078-fd97-4be2-afc4-1a6df934af04.jpg?v=1781814170","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474403054-agamben-and-the-politics-of-human-rights","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}