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Can thought resist the destruction of neoliberalism, the violence, war, and moral decay that are central characteristics of the early 21st century?
What is the role of critique in an environment where theory is assessed by management criteria that reward what is harmless, conventional, and banal?
Presenting the major schools of radical political philosophy and critical legal thought, Kostas Douzinas argues that in the age of globalization, modernization, and cosmopolitanism, we move between the nihilism of unfulfilled desire and the superficial value of nationalisms and religions.
Against these stands the audacity of thought and resistance. The cosmopolitanisms of power always end up in imperial adventures. Following Diogenes, Zeno, Benjamin, and Derrida, the "incoming cosmopolitanism" is being built here and now, with friends, through acts of hospitality, in the cities of resistance.
What connects us with a migrant, a Palestinian, or an unemployed Greek is not that we are all humans with rights, citizens with identities, or members of a closed community, but our absolute uniqueness and our collective responsibility, beyond the citizen and the human, beyond the national and the international.
The world that is coming is the world of real democracy for anyone and everyone. The city, the countless encounters of uniqueness in Syntagma, in the squares, in solidarity. Thus, radical desire confronts the devastations of the past and the promise of the future and a justice that transcends any law, constitution, or right.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
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- Author
- Kostas E. Douzinas
- Publisher
- Nisos
- Subtitle
- Rights, empire, cosmopolitanism
- Original Title
- Human Rights and Empire
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789609535472
Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 550
- Dimensions
- -
- Release Date
- 10/2012
- Publication Date
- 2012
Content
- Philosophical Movement/School
- Nihilism
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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