Human Rights and Constituent Power

Without Model or Warranty
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-58497-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its authorised foundations and the possibilities of other human rights traditions were denied. The strife that once lay at the heart of human rights was forgotten in an increasing juridification. This book seeks to recover the radical political pole of human rights. It looks to the debates surrounding constituent power – the ‘power of the people’ – in order to understand different possibilities for the discourse. Using continental political philosophy and critical legal theory, Human Rights and Constituent Power presents a very different conception of human rights, more at home on the riotous streets than in courtrooms and parliaments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wall, Illan Rua

Wall, Illan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Democracy, Radical Politics & A Differential Human Rights; 2. Challenging Human Rights Histories; 3. The Withdrawal of the Radical in Human Rights; 4. The Authority of Change: Sieyès & Kant; 5.An Open Constituent Power: Sorel, Benjamin & Bataille; 6.Differing the People: Derrida & Rancière; 7.On Being-Together: Beyond the Subject of Human Rights; 8. On World: Biopolitics, Singularity & ‘Global’ Human Rights; 9. On Right-ing: Constituent Power & Human Rights.

Über Autor(innen)

Wall, Illan