The Biopolitics of Human Rights: Hannah Arendt’s Approach


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Miguel Ángel Martínez


This paper examines Hannah Arendt's considerations specially in some passages of The Human condition and The Origins of Totalitarism to consider biopolitics fundamentation of the human rights. Besides, this paper focus on the convergence between the arguments of the Jewish philosopher and those made by Michel Foucault, in order to reinforce Arendt's idea on the subject of biopolitics.
Hannah Arendt, violence, politics, bare life, standardize

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Martínez, M. Ángel. (2015). The Biopolitics of Human Rights: Hannah Arendt’s Approach. EN-CLAVES DEL PENSAMIENTO, (9), 25–39. Retrieved from https://www.enclavesdelpensamiento.mx/index.php/enclaves/article/view/105

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