Wronging rights?: philosophical challenges for Human Rights
"Rathore, Aakash Singh (ed.)"
Wronging rights?: philosophical challenges for Human Rights - New Delhi Routledge 2011 - 216p.
Wronging Rights Philosophical Challenges For Human Rights 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
9780415615297
Human rights-India
341.481 WRO
Wronging rights?: philosophical challenges for Human Rights - New Delhi Routledge 2011 - 216p.
Wronging Rights Philosophical Challenges For Human Rights 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
9780415615297
Human rights-India
341.481 WRO