ETHICS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL POLITICAL THOUGHT

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This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the postcolonialist and the postAlthusserian. Its balanced internal structure does not just throw these two critiques together but actually forces them to enter into confrontation and dialogue.This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the postcolonialist and the postAlthusserian its balanced internal structure not just throwing these two critiques together but actually forcing them to enter into confrontation and dialogue. The book is organised in three parts: at each end the postcolonialist and the postAlthusserian critiques are represented by some of their main thinkers (Ratna Kapur G. C. Spivak Upendra Baxi: Slavoj Żiżek Jacques RanciĘre) while in the middle an American intermezzo (Richard Rorty Wendy Brown) functions as a genuine Derridian supplement: always already contaminating the purity of the two theoretical schools preventing their enclosure and hence fuelling and complicating further their mutual confrontation. As in any authentic dialogue the introduction and the conclusion each claim victory for one of the sides by changing the very terms and rules of the dialogue picturing it as a confrontation between emancipatory universalism and inefficient particularism (from the perspective of the postAlthusserians) or as a split between hypocrisy and truth (from the perspective of the postcolonialists).Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Which Critique of Human Rights? Alex Cistelecan Part One: Postcolonial Perspectives 2. Human Rights in the 21st Century: Take a Walk on the Dark Side Ratna Kapur 3. Critiquing Rights: The Politics of Identity and Difference Upendra Baxi 4. Righting Wrongs Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Part Two: An American Interlude 5. Human Rights Rationality and Sentimentality Richard Rorty 6. śThe Most We Can Hope For . . .: Human Rights and the Politics of Fatalism Wendy Brown Part Three: PostAlthusserian Perspectives 7. Against Human Rights Slavoj Żiżek 8. Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man? Jacques RanciĘre 9. Conclusion: Wronging Rights? Reevaluating the Alternatives Aakash Singh Rathore. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index.

Data Publikacji: 2016-01-21
Wymiary: 216 mm 138 mm 272 gr