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Author: Michel Feher
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.40cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 20.40cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9780822326137
ISBN 10: 0822326132
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 25 September 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Powerless by Design is necessary reading for anyone concerned with the contemporary politics of human rights. Feher offers a lucid and incisive indictment of the humanitarian pretensions of the international community. -Robert Post, University of California, Berkeley Extremely provocative and informative, this book should quickly become the center of political debate among liberal and left scholars and activists. The book deftly lays out the paradox of a discourse on human rights and international obligations that under certain political conditions undermines the very principles at stake -Judith Butler, author of The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection Michel Feher is a keen and lucid analyzer of doctrines and hypocrisies, and in Powerless by Design he has given us a truly valuable analysis of the doctrines and hypocrisies of right now. -Paul Berman, author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
Powerless by Design is necessary reading for anyone concerned within the contemporary politics of human rights. Feher offers a lucid and incisive indictment of the humanitarian pretensions of the international community. - Robert Post, University of California, Berkeley Extremely provocative and informative, this book should quickly become the center of political debate among liberal and left scholars and activists. The book deftly lays out the paradox of a discourse on human rights and international obligations that under certain political conditions undermines the very principles at stake - Judith Butler, author of The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection Michel Feher is a keen and lucid analyzer of doctrines and hypocrisies, and in Powerless by Design he has given us a truly valuable analysis of the doctrines and hypocrisies of right now. - Paul Berman, author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
"""Powerless by Design is necessary reading for anyone concerned within the contemporary politics of human rights. Feher offers a lucid and incisive indictment of the humanitarian pretensions of the international community."" - Robert Post, University of California, Berkeley ""Extremely provocative and informative, this book should quickly become the center of political debate among liberal and left scholars and activists. The book deftly lays out the paradox of a discourse on human rights and international obligations that under certain political conditions undermines the very principles at stake"" - Judith Butler, author of The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection ""Michel Feher is a keen and lucid analyzer of doctrines and hypocrisies, and in Powerless by Design he has given us a truly valuable analysis of the doctrines and hypocrisies of right now."" - Paul Berman, author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968"
Author Information
Michel Feher is Founding Editor and Publisher of Zone Books in New York. He most recently edited The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in 18th-Century France.
