Abjection and Agonism: Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights
Tuesday 03 April, 2012
6 - 8pm, $0
The New School, Kaplan Hall
6 East 16 Street, Room 1103
Andrew Schaap will speak on "Abjection and Agonism: Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights."
Andrew Schaap teaches politics at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Political Reconciliation (Routledge, 2005), editor of Law and Agonistic Politics (Ashgate, 2009) and co-editor (with Danielle Celermajer and Vrasidas Karalis) of Power, Judgment and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt. He is currently writing a book called Human Rights and the Political, which examines how Hannah Arendt’s aporetic account of human rights is addressed by Seyla Benhabib, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Ranciere. He is also co-editing a book with Gary Foley called The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Sovereignty, Land Rights, Black Power and the State.
Andrew Schaap teaches politics at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Political Reconciliation (Routledge, 2005), editor of Law and Agonistic Politics (Ashgate, 2009) and co-editor (with Danielle Celermajer and Vrasidas Karalis) of Power, Judgment and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt. He is currently writing a book called Human Rights and the Political, which examines how Hannah Arendt’s aporetic account of human rights is addressed by Seyla Benhabib, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Ranciere. He is also co-editing a book with Gary Foley called The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Sovereignty, Land Rights, Black Power and the State.