Questions of human rights are among the most pressing and
intractable matters at this historical moment. If claims to human
rights are by definition universal, the formulation, legislation,
and implementation of them tend to be significantly less than
universal. And Justice for All? a special issue of SAQ, examines
the idea and the reality of human rights and their attendant
discourses. The essays gathered here-from academics and activists
working in law, philosophy, political theory, literature, medicine,
and ngos-collectively interrogate these universal claims to human
rights and the political justice that may or may not follow from
them. Grappling with the philosophical and theoretical questions at
the heart of human rights, these essays take into consideration
current political configurations such as sovereignty, genocide,
humanitarian intervention, and the neglected domain of cultural
rights (the right to a cultural identity). Drawing on Enlightenment
thinking about human rights at the same time that they analyze the
central concepts at work there-including the "humanity of man" and
the nature of rights or of law-the contributors make a necessary
intervention in a world system that Enlightenment thinkers could
scarcely have envisioned. Contributors. Etienne Balibar, Rony
Brauman, Wendy Brown, Rebecca Comay, Jacques Derrida, Paul Downes,
Werner Hamacher, Thomas Keenan, Susan Maslan, Jacques Ranciere,
Bruce Robbins, Avital Ronell, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Elsa
Stamatopoulou, Slavoj Zizek
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