Dignity in adversity: human rights in troubled times

Abstract

Preface vii Acknowledgments x 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism without Illusions 1 2. From The Dialectic of Enlightenment to The Origins of Totalitarianism: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the Company of Hannah Arendt 20 3. International Law and Human Plurality in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin 41 4. Another Universalism: On the Unity and Diversity of Human Rights 57 5. Is There a Human Right to Democracy? Beyond Interventionism and Indifference 77 6. Twilight of Sovereignty or the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms? Rethinking Citizenship in Volatile Times 94 7. Claiming Rights Across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty 117 8. Democratic Exclusions and Democratic Iterations: Dilemmas of Just Membership and Prospects of Cosmopolitan Federalism 138 9. The Return of Political Theology: The Scarf Affair in Comparative Constitutional Perspective in France, Germany, and Turkey 166 10. Utopia and Dystopia in Our Times 184 Notes and References 196 Index 285

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