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Name: Human Rights and Constituent Power
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9780415824033
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Author: Illan Wall
ISBN: 9780415824033

By Illan Wall

Routledge April 2013

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ISBN-13: 9780415824033
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: April 2013
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

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.

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