Arendt, Agamben And The Issue Of Hyper-legality

Synopsis

In This Book, Kathleen R. Arnold Examines Arendt{u2019}s Comparison In The Context Of Post-1996 U.s. Criminal And Immigration Policies, Arguing That The Criminal-stateless Binary Is Significant To Contemporary Politics And Yet Flawed. A Key Distinction Made Today Is That Immigrant Detention Is Not Imprisonment Because It Is A Civil System. In Turn, Prisoners Are Still Citizens In Some Respects But Have Relatively Few Rights Since The Legal Underpinnings Of Cruel And Unusual Have Shifted In Recent Times. The Two Systems {u2013} Immigrant Detention And The Prison System {u2013} Are Also Concretely Related As They Often House Both Populations And Utilize The Same Techniques (such As Administrative Segregation). Arnold Compellingly Argues That Prisoners Are Essentially Made Into Foreigners In These Spaces, While Immigrants In Detention Are Cast As Outlaws.--back Cover. Personhood -- Is It Better To Be A Criminal Than A Stateless Person? : Revisiting Arendt's Famous Comparison -- Blurring Boundaries -- Democratic Sacrifice And Heroism In The Context Of Tragedy -- Blurring Paradigms -- Conclusion : Is It Better To Be A Criminal Than A Stateless Person? Kathleen R. Arnold. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.