Potentialities of human rights: Agamben and the narrative of fated necessity

Contemporary Political Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-22

  Gündoǧdu, Ayten ^a  

^a Barnard College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agamben; biopolitics; human rights; potentiality; sans papiers; sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855652952     PISSN: 14708914     EISSN: 14769336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/cpt.2010.45     Document Type: Article

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