The epistemology of the secret : international law as revelation / Jean d'Aspremont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Aspremont, Jean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--Philosophy.

International law.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Official secrets.

Transparency (Ethics) in government--Law and legislation.

Transparency (Ethics) in government.

Critical legal studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 189 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking work, Jean d'Aspremont undertakes the first study of the epistemology of the secret of international law, which is a specific intellectual posture whereby international law is considered to be replete with secrets that international lawyers ought to reveal. In addition to arguing that the epistemology of the secret of international law is everywhere at work in international legal thought and practice, d'Aspremont demonstrates why this posture must be scrutinized, given how much it enables certain sayings, thoughts, perceptions and actions while simultaneously disabling others, making it complicit with the worst forms of capitalism, colonialism, racism, bourgeois ideology, phallocentrism, virilism and masculinism. This book should be read by anyone interested in how international law came to do what it does and why it must be rethought.

Contents:

The epistemology of the secret of international law

Epistemologies of the secret elsewhere

Secrecy and transparency in the international legal literature

Manifestations of the epistemology of the secret of international law

Resistance to the epistemology of the secret of international law.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jul 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-59778-7

1-009-59777-9

1-009-59773-6

OCLC:

1524994048