TY - BOOK ID - 77936531 TI - International law and ethics after the critical challenge PY - 2011 VL - 12 SN - 1283120011 9786613120014 9004214755 9789004214750 9789004189096 9004189092 PB - Leiden, the Netherlands Boston Martinus Nijhoff Publishers DB - UniCat KW - International law KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - International law - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936531 AB - 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. ER -