MacDonald, Euan.

International law and ethics after the critical challenge : framing the legal within the post-foundational / by Euan MacDonald. - Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011. - xviii, 424 p. ; 25 cm. - The Erik Castren Institute monographs on international law and human rights ; v. 12 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-416) and index.

The scope and aims of the book -- International law and the critical challenge -- Reactions to the critical challenge -- A common problematic -- Foucault, ethics and enlightenment -- Rorty, epistemology and literature -- The foundations of a post-foundational ethics -- Kratochwil, rhetoric and communicative action -- Korhonen, situationality and "the cave" -- Franck, democracy and fairness -- Rawls and the law of peoples -- From contradiction to aporia -- The recovery of rhetoric -- The expansion of rhetoric -- The rhetoric of eunomia -- Framing the legal within the post-foundational.

9789004189096 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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International law--Moral and ethical aspects.

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