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Wronging Rights? - Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights (Paperback)
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Wronging Rights? - Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights (Paperback)
Series: 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 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 Zizek,
Jacques Ranciere), 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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