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Book Title: Arendt, Agamben And The Issue Of Hyper-Legality: In Between ...
Number of Pages: 198 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Arendt, Agamben and the Issue of Hyper-Legality : in between the Prisoner-Stateless Nexus
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Emigration & Immigration, History & Theory, General, Penology, Criminology
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, Political Science
Author: Kathleen R. Arnold
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
