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International law and ethics after the critical challenge : framing the legal within the post-foundational /
Around twenty years ago, a challenge was laid down to international law by those writing at the critical periphery of the discipline; a challenge that has yet to find satisfactory response. Although often (mistakenly) characterised as nihilist, this book seeks to recast it in positive terms; to pose...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
2011.
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| Colección: | Erik Castrén Institute monographs on international law and human rights ;
v. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Around twenty years ago, a challenge was laid down to international law by those writing at the critical periphery of the discipline; a challenge that has yet to find satisfactory response. Although often (mistakenly) characterised as nihilist, this book seeks to recast it in positive terms; to pose the question of what - if anything - is left of international law and ethics if we accept both that apolitical rules are impossible and that the values that must - inevitably - be used to justify them are irreducibly, radically subjective. After detailed analyses of different political and international legal philosophers who have confronted this issue, the answer is located in a "turn to literature" and a rehabilitation of the ancient notion of rhetoric |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 424 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-416) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004214750 9004214755 |