Wronging rights?: philosophical challenges for Human Rights

By:

"Rathore, Aakash Singh (ed.)"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Routledge; 2011Description: 216pISBN:

9780415615297

Subject(s):

Human rights-India

DDC classification:

341.481 WRO

Summary: 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

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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

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