Abstract
The article aims to offer an assessment of the complex position of Michel Foucault on the political significance of rights-claiming, i.e. the politics of rights. Although the theorist Foucault has reservations regarding rights-claiming and only vaguely gestures at a ‘new form of right’ the intellectual Foucault resorts to the practice of rights-claiming on many occasions. The article argues that in these interventions by the intellectual Foucault indeed such a ‘new form of right’ is discernible that rests on a radical rights constructivism. The article concludes with a number of caveats regarding such an emphatically political practice of rights-claiming.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of Political Power |
Vol/bind | 5 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Sider (fra-til) | 301-318 |
Antal sider | 18 |
ISSN | 2158-3803 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2012 |
Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
Emneord
- Foucault
- Law
- Rights
- Politics
- Power