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Human Rights and Constituent Power - Softcover

Wall, Illan

 
9780415824033: Human Rights and Constituent Power
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415824036 ISBN 13: 9780415824033
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415824036
ISBN 13 
9780415824033
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208