1st Edition
Human Rights and Constituent Power Without Model or Warranty
By Illan Wall
Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its authorised foundations and the possibilities of other human rights traditions were denied. The strife that once lay at the heart of human rights was forgotten in an increasing juridification. This book seeks to... Read more
1.Democracy, Radical Politics & A Differential Human Rights; 2. Challenging Human Rights Histories; 3. The Withdrawal of the Radical in Human Rights; 4. The Authority of Change: Sieyès & Kant; 5.An Open Constituent Power: Sorel, Benjamin & Bataille; 6.Differing the People: Derrida & Rancière; 7.On Being-Together: Beyond the Subject of Human Rights; 8. On World: Biopolitics, Singularity & ‘Global’ Human Rights; 9. On Right-ing: Constituent Power & Human Rights.
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Wall, Illan
