Overview
"The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War, neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to ""civilisation"". Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and shape liberal subjects."
Full Product Details
Author: Jessica Whyte
Publisher: Verso Books
Imprint: Verso Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9781786633460
ISBN 10: 1786633469
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 November 2019
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Praise for Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben: A theoretical and political tour de force. - Law and Critique Whyte identifies key questions which will need to be asked in order to transform this world. Such questions relate to challenging inequality, challenging capitalism's colonialism of the future, and creating new forms of solidarity. To address these issues, Whyte draws us to her conclusion - that it is not enough to accede to teleological formations of capitalism. We must begin to develop ways to contest it. - Theory and Event With its clarity, philosophical depth, and resolute insistence on cashing out the radical political stakes of his thought, it is a corrective to the superficiality and confusion that has marked the reception of Agamben's work, and an important contribution to contemporary political theory. - Critical Horizons
"Praise for Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben: ""A theoretical and political tour de force."" - Law and Critique ""Whyte identifies key questions which will need to be asked in order to transform this world. Such questions relate to challenging inequality, challenging capitalism's colonialism of the future, and creating new forms of solidarity. To address these issues, Whyte draws us to her conclusion - that it is not enough to accede to teleological formations of capitalism. We must begin to develop ways to contest it."" - Theory and Event ""With its clarity, philosophical depth, and resolute insistence on cashing out the radical political stakes of his thought, it is a corrective to the superficiality and confusion that has marked the reception of Agamben's work, and an important contribution to contemporary political theory."" - Critical Horizons"
Author Information
Jessica Whyte is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben.
