Reopens the law-ethics debate from a postmodern perspective and calls for a radical assessment of the relationship between law and morality. This incorporates an analysis of the failure of the law to deliver its promise of justice and argues that only by taking seriously a philosophy of otherness can the law be transformed into an acceptable ethical basis of social communication; otherwise, it will remain divorced from ethics and its decline into amoral technocratic management will continue. Readers interested in Cultural, Legal and Social and Political Theory.

Justice Miscarried: Ethics and Aesthetics in Law

Douzinas, Costas

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

PRENTICE/HALL

This volume of essays traces the history of jurisprudence from classical times, and examines various interpretations of written laws.

Postmodern Jurisprudence: The Law of Text in the Texts of Law

Politics & Social Sciences

McVeigh, Shaun

Warrington, Ronnie

Sociology

Routledge

Human Rights and Empire

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: <ul>
<li>the normative characteristics, political philosophy and metaphysical foundations of our age </li> <li>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 </li> <li>the use of human rights as a justification for a new configuration of political, economic and military power. </li> </ul>
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.

Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

Philosophy

Routledge-Cavendish

Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe

This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, uprisings and revolutions has radically changed the political landscape. This new politics is the latest example of the drive to resist, a persevering characteristic of the human spirit. The EU and the IMF used Greece as a guinea pig to test the conditions of social reconstruction in times of crisis. But the manifold resistances turned the object of experimentation into a political subject and overturned the plans of elites. The idea and limits of democracy are redefined in the place of their birth.

Politics & Government

Polity

This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, uprisings and revolutions has radically changed the political landscape. This new politics is the latest example of the drive to resist, a persevering characteristic of the human spirit. The EU and the IMF used Greece as a guinea pig to test the conditions of social reconstruction in times of crisis. But the manifold resistances turned the object of experimentation into a political subject and overturned the plans of elites. The idea and limits of democracy are redefined in the place of their birth.

Asian Popular Culture: The Global (Dis)Continuity

The Radical Philosophy of Rights

After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life. They are seen as the key concept in morals and politics and a main tool for forging individual and collective identities. They are the ideology after ‘the end of ideologies’ – the only values left after ‘the end of history’. The response of the left to the rights revolution has been muted and unsure. Classical Marxist critiques of (natural) rights have made the left justly suspicious, and this is still the case today. Elaborating and addressing a series of foundational paradoxes of rights, this book – the third in Costas Douzinas’s human rights trilogy, following The End of Human Rights and Human Rights and Empire – provides a long-overdue re-evaluation of the history and political uses of rights for the left. The book examines the history and philosophy of the (legal) person, the subject, the human and dignity from classical Rome to postmodern Brussels. It traces the gradual abandonment of right, virtue and the common good for individual rights and self-interest. The limited and distorted conception of rights of liberal jurisprudence is contrasted with an alternative that sees rights as a relation involved in the struggle for recognition and an everyday utopia. The right to resistance and revolution, prohibited but regularly returning like the repressed, rescues law from sclerosis and presents a case study of the paradoxical nature of rights. Finally, the book offers a brief examination of law’s encounter with radical politics informed by the author’s strange experience as an ‘accidental’ politician in the first radical left government in Europe. The book’s radical concept of legal philosophy and public law will be of considerable value to legal theorists, political philosophers and anyone with an interest in thinking and acting in ways that go beyond the limits of liberal, and neoliberal, ideology.

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Justice Miscarried: Ethics and Aesthetics in Law

Postmodern Jurisprudence: The Law of Text in the Texts of Law

Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

Human Rights and Empire

Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe

Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe

Asian Popular Culture: The Global (Dis)Continuity

Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

The Radical Philosophy of Rights

The Radical Philosophy of Rights