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9780415427586

Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415427586

  • ISBN10:

    0415427584

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-05-09
  • Publisher: Routledge-Caven

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Summary

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions. Asking whether there ?is an intrinsic relationship between human rights and the recent wars carried out in their name?? and whether ?human rights are a barrier against domination and oppression or the ideological gloss of an emerging empire?? this book examines a range of topics, including: the normative characteristics, political philosophy and metaphysical foundations of our age the subjective and institutional aspects of human rights and their involvement in the creation of identity and definition of the meaning and powers of humanity the use of human rights as a justification for a new configuration ofpolitical, economic and military power. Exploring the legacy and the contemporary role of human rights, this topical and incisive book is a must for all those interested in human rights law, jurisprudence and philosophy of law, political philosophy and political theory.

Author Biography

Costas Douzinas is Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Prologuep. vi
The paradoxes of human rightsp. 1
The end of human rights?p. 3
Identity, desire, rightsp. 34
The many faces of humanitarianismp. 51
The politics of human rightsp. 90
Freedom in a biopolitical settingp. 111
The normative sources of the new world orderp. 131
Empire or cosmopolitanism?p. 133
Cosmopolitanism ancient, modern, postmodernp. 151
Human rights: values in a valueless world?p. 177
The brief glory and the long crisis of international lawp. 198
War, violence, lawp. 236
Bare, theological and cosmopolitan sovereigntyp. 269
Epilogue: the cosmopolitanism to comep. 291
Bibliographyp. 299
Indexp. 313
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