International law and ethics after the critical challenge : framing the legal within the post-foundational / / by Euan MacDonald.

• Author: MacDonald, Euan.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Erik Castrén Institute Monographs on International Law and Human Rights 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Chapter I. The Scope And Aims Of The Book /; Chapter II. International Law And The Critical Challenge /; Chapter III. Reactions To The Critical Challenge /; Chapter IV. A Common Problematic /; Chapter V. Foucault, Ethics And Enlightenment /; Chapter VI. Rorty, Epistemology And Literature /; Chapter VII. The Foundations Of A Post-Foundational Ethics /; Chapter VIII. Kratochwil, Rhetoric And Communicative Action /; Chapter IX. Korhonen, Situationality And “The Cave” /; Chapter X. Franck, Democracy And Fairness /; Chapter XI. Rawls And The Law Of Peoples /; Chapter XII. From Contradiction To Aporia /; Chapter XIII. The Recovery Of Rhetoric /; Chapter XIV. The Expansion Of Rhetoric /; Chapter XV. The Rhetoric Of Eunomia /; Chapter XVI. Framing The Legal Within The Post-Foundational /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-416) and index.
• ISBN: 1283120011; 9786613120014; 9004214755
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Euan MacDonald.

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.