Human rights and empire : the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism /

Main Author: Douzinas, Costas, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, UK : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The end of human rights?
  • Identity, desire, rights
  • The many faces of humanitarianism
  • The politics of human rights
  • Freedom in a biopolitical setting
  • Empire or cosmopolitanism?
  • Cosmopolitanism ancient, modern, postmodern
  • Human rights : values in a valueless world?
  • The brief glory and the long crisis of international law
  • War, violence, law
  • Bare, theological and cosmopolitan sovereignty
  • Epilogue : the cosmopolitanism to come.