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The politics of the human

Anne Phillips,The Politics of the Human. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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  1. University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    Laura Brace, Andrew Reid & Kelly Staples

  2. Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

    Moya Lloyd

  3. University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Véronique Pin-Fat

  4. London School of Economics, London, WC2A 2AE, UK

    Anne Phillips

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Brace, L., Lloyd, M., Reid, A. et al. The politics of the human. Contemp Polit Theory 17, 207–240 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0198-3

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