Human rights and constituent power : without model or warranty / Illan Rua Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Illan rua

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Human rights law inherently involves the making of demands against overbearing state power and thus should be seen as involving a form of political resistance, in addition to the more commonly discussed standards of juridification, argues Wall (law, Oxford Brookes U., England), who aims to recover this demand aspect as the political and non-legal radical pole of the human rights project by differentiating it from the juridical decision pole, because it is only the tension between the poles that makes human rights a politically productive discourse. The task is carried out through a critique of how the demand as constituent is pre-figured in current hegemonic constructions of human rights law and presentation of a corrective theory, influenced by Jean-Luc Nancy and "his ontology of being singular plural," that instead works to demonstrate the constituent potential in rights and the possibility of the political. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Democracy, radical politics and a differential human rights

Challenging human rights histories

The withdrawal of the radical in human rights

The authority of change : Sieyès and Kant

An open constituent power : Sorel, Benjamin and Bataille

Differing the people : Derrida and Rancière

On being-together : beyond the subject of human rights

On world : biopolitics, singularity and "global" human rights

On right-ing : constituent power and human rights.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-195) and index.

ISBN:

9780415584975

0415584973

9780203804872

0203804872

OCLC:

705351937