Rightlessness in an Age of Rights

Zusatztext Bristling with insights into the plight of migrants in today's global economy, Gundogdu's book offers a creative rereading of Hannah Arendt's controversial critique of human rights. She perceptively grasps that the key insight in Arendt's difficult notion of a 'right to have rights' is not to ground rights in a normative foundation but to reanimate them as quotidian political practices of founding. In this way, Gundogdu offers a fresh response to the tenacious problems of rightlessness which at once includes and goes well beyond juridical appeals to the sovereign state. Informationen zum Autor Ayten Gundogdu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College-Columbia University. Klappentext Rightlessness in an Age of Rights offers a critical inquiry of human rights by rethinking the key concepts and arguments of twentieth-century political theorist Hannah Arendt. At the heart of this critical inquiry are the challenging questions posed by the contemporary struggles of asylum-seekers! refugees! and undocumented immigrants. Zusammenfassung Rightlessness in an Age of Rights offers a critical inquiry of human rights by rethinking the key concepts and arguments of twentieth-century political theorist Hannah Arendt. At the heart of this critical inquiry are the challenging questions posed by the contemporary struggles of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Human Rights across Borders; Chapter 1: Perplexities of Human Rights; Chapter 2: Human Rights as Politics and Anti-politics; Chapter 3: Borders of Personhood; Chapter 4: Expulsion from Politics and Humanity; Chapter 5: Declarations of A Right to Have Rights; Conclusion: The Struggle Remains Undecided; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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• Authors: Ayten Gundogdu, Ayten (Assistant Professor of Political Gundogdu, Ayten Gündogdu, Gundogdu Ayten
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9780199370412
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937041-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law