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 ?i?ek, Jacques Ranci?re), 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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