Wronging Rights?: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights (Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415615291 ISBN 13: 9780415615297

Publisher: Routledge India, 2011

Synopsis

This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian, 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 post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian critiques are represented by some of their main thinkers (Ratna Kapur, G. C. Spivak, Upendra Baxi; Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Rancière), 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 post-Althusserians), or as a split between hypocrisy and truth (from the perspective of the post-colonialists).

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About the Author

Aakash Singh Rathore is Research Professor at Luiss University, Rome.

Alex Cistelecan is a doctoral candidate at Luiss University, Rome.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415615291
• ISBN 13: 9780415615297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Rathore Aakash Singh, Cistelecan Alex