Human Rights and Constituent Power: Without Model or Warranty

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Human Rights and Constituent Power
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Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Democracy, radical politics and a differential human rights
2. Challenging human rights histories
	Three strategies of pacification
	Slavery, the Haitian Revolution and abolition
3. The withdrawal of the radical in human rights
	The withdrawal of the radical
	Statist and individualist metaphysics
4. The authority of change: Sieyès and Kant
	Sieyès and the realization of the nation
	Kant and the abyssal heart of the constituent
5. An open constituent power: Sorel, Benjamin and Bataille
	Reflections on violence
	Critique of violence
	The dark night of revolution-without-end
6. Differing the people: Derrida and Rancière
	A substantive or elided people?
	Derrida and Rancière’s deconstruction of the people
7. On being-together: beyond the subject of human rights
	Heidegger’s Volk
	The people, the political and community
8. On world: biopolitics, singularity and ‘global’ human rights
	Human rights, biopower and singularity
	World, globe and capital
9. On right-ing: constituent power and human rights
	Two radical notions of rights
	Right-ing and the sovereignty of human rights?
Notes
Bibliography
Index