The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life

by John Lechte

Book Overview

Why is it important to consider the human today? Exploring this question John Lechte takes inspiration from the interplay of two of Giorgio Agamben's concepts: 'ways of life' and 'bare life'.

Stateless people, those who do not have a political community, such as asylum seekers and refugees, are no less human. However the European tradition, represented most clearly in Hannah Arendt's thinking of the opposition between the oikos, ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135014388X
• ISBN13: 9781350143883
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"