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Wronging Rights?: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights

Alex Cistelecan

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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 , while in the middle, an American intermezzo functions as a genuine Derridian supplement: always already contaminating the purity of the two theoretical schools, preventing their enclosure and, hence, fuelling and complicating further their mutual confrontation. As in any authentic dialogue, the introduction and the conclusion each claim victory for one of the sides by changing the very terms and rules of the dialogue, picturing it as a confrontation between emancipatory universalism and inefficient particularism , or as a split between hypocrisy and truth .

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall

Release: April 26, 2011

ISBN: 0415615291

ISBN 13: 9780415615297

Wronging Rights?: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights

Alex Cistelecan

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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 , while in the middle, an American intermezzo functions as a genuine Derridian supplement: always already contaminating the purity of the two theoretical schools, preventing their enclosure and, hence, fuelling and complicating further their mutual confrontation. As in any authentic dialogue, the introduction and the conclusion each claim victory for one of the sides by changing the very terms and rules of the dialogue, picturing it as a confrontation between emancipatory universalism and inefficient particularism , or as a split between hypocrisy and truth .

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall

Release: April 26, 2011

ISBN: 0415615291

ISBN 13: 9780415615297

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