Human rights, State Violence and Political Resistance
This article investigates Hannah Arendt’s and Giorgio Agamben’s critiques of human rights and argues that the two thinkers share a blind spot with regard to the radical potentials of human rights. The problem is that they do not break with two fixed imaginaries which still haunt liberal democracies:...
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| Language: | English |
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The University of Akureyri
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Online Access: | http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-8-no-3-2013/69-conference-paper/441-human-rights-state-violence-and-political-resistance |