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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, ... ‘secular religion’ of human rights, I am not merely a
human rights agnostic but also a human rights atheist, for I am ready to affirm
the non-existence, across the ages, of human rights. Going further,...