International Law and Ethics After the Critical Challenge - Framing the Legal Within the Post-Foundational

Around twenty years ago, a challenge was laid down to international law by those writing at the critical periphery of the discipline; a challenge that has yet to find satisfactory response. Although often (mistakenly) characterised as nihilist, this book seeks to recast it in positive terms; to pose the question of what - if anything - is left of international law and ethics if we accept both that apolitical rules are impossible and that the values that must - inevitably - be used to justify them are irreducibly, radically subjective. After detailed analyses of different political and international legal philosophers who have confronted this issue, the answer is located in a "turn to literature" and a rehabilitation of the ancient notion of rhetoric.

Product details

• Authors: Euan MacDonald
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2011
• EAN: 9789004189096
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18909-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 871 g
• Series: Erik Castrén Institute Monogra
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law