The inhuman
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Two categories of inhuman is detailed, namely, a moral category that constitutes and saves the human, upholding him in its certainty and rectitude, projecting all animality and barbarity outwards, and another that undermines the human's certainty, deposes the subject of knowledge and questions his ordering of the world. The inhuman understood as evil reinforces the human's sense of self and secures his autonomy, while the other challenges the human as the moment of both radical disruption and radical dependence.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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International law
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An investigation of the wilder, less developed corners of international law reveals that, as far as state-to-state relations are concerned, there is no agreed sovereign, and effectiveness and the control of territory are the prerequisites for legal standing, for the possession of rights. It reveals much about the inequalities and violence that are intrinsic to the law, and thus it is not surprising that in contemporary times, international law is both the world's last great hope and a deeply suspect enterprise.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Justice
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Justice is not something that might be cognitively grasped and executed, but is rather an opening in thought. Claiming that justice is resistant to knowledge or calling for thinking justice without criteria is not a version of epistemological and moral relativism, but the maintenance of the law in an age of uncertainty.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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