Wronging Rights? - Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Aakash Singh Rathore is Research Professor at Luiss University, Rome. Alex Cistelecan is a doctoral candidate at Luiss University, Rome. Klappentext 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 does not just throw these two critiques together, but actually forces them to enter into confrontation and dialogue. Zusammenfassung 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 does not just throw these two critiques together, but actually forces them to enter into confrontation and dialogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Which Critique of Human Rights? Alex Cistelecan Part One: Post-colonial Perspectives 2. Human Rights in the 21st Century: Take a Walk on the Dark Side Ratna Kapur 3. Critiquing Rights: The Politics of Identity and Difference Upendra Baxi 4. Righting Wrongs Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Part Two: An American Interlude 5. Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality Richard Rorty 6. ‘The Most We Can Hope For . . .’: Human Rights and the Politics of Fatalism Wendy Brown Part Three: Post-Althusserian Perspectives 7. Against Human Rights Slavoj Žižek 8. Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man? Jacques Rancière9. Conclusion: Wronging Rights? Re-evaluating the Alternatives Aakash Singh Rathore. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors.Index.

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• Authors: Aakash Singh (Visiting Prof Rathore
• Assisted by: Alex Cistelecan (Editor), Cistelecan Alex (Editor), Aakash Singh Rathore (Editor), Rathore Aakash Singh (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2011
• EAN: 9780415615297
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61529-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Philosophy, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General