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... that
the problem of the gap between human rights theory and practice can only be
solved by looking outside the human rights logic. Bentham famously described
the rights of man as ‘Nonsense upon stilts’, ... Acknowledgements
25Toquotehim:‘Liberaljurisprudenceclaimsthatrightsandhumanrightsare
historically,structurallyandpoliticallyindistinguishable Butwemustresistthis
equalisationofrights(thebuildingblocksofeverypositivism)andhumanrights,
whicharethepromisesofafutureandthecritiqueofallpositivelawandsystemof
rights :Douzinas,EndofHumanRights,at373–4.
26BerdalAralmakesthispointinanarticleaboutOttomanrule:‘[An]obvious
differencebetweenIslamandmodernhumanrightsdoctrinedoesnotimplythat
societieslivingunderIslamicrulearesubjecttoarbitraryruleoreventooppression’:
BerdalAral,‘TheIdeaofHumanRightsasPerceivedintheOttomanEmpire’(2004)
26HumanRightsQuarterly454–82,at461.
27Seee.g.WendyBrown’sarticlepurposelyentitled‘“TheMostWeCanHopeFor ... ”:
HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’.
28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper-
spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights.
29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1of
Chapter2.
30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevant
includecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegal
studiesmovement.
31Marie-Be
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dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence:
TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),Insideand
OutsidetheLaw:AnthropologicalStudiesofAuthorityandAmbiguity(London:
Routledge,1996)19–40.
32ToborrowanexpressionfoundinDouzinas,EndofHumanRights,at4.
33Thus,togiveafewexamples,IsurmiseinChapter8thatJackDonnelly(Politics),
AlanGewirth(Philosophy),MichaelPerry(Law)andMichaelFreeman(Govern-
ment)arenaturalscholars;MichaelIgnatieff(History),ConorGearty(Law)and
RichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),Costas
Douzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics)
protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua
(Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthis
briefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebates
abouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries.
34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido-
latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(which
doesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseof
theterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’.
35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whom
IclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literally
training,...