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1 Democracy, radical politics and a differential human rights 1

2 Challenging human rights histories 9

Three strategies of pacification 11

Slavery, the Haitian Revolution and abolition 15

3 The withdrawal of the radical in human rights 27

The withdrawal of the radical 28 Statist and individualist metaphysics 34

4 The authority of change: Sieyes and Kant 45

Sieyes and the realization of the nation 46 Kant and the abyssal heart of the constituent 53

5 An open constituent power: Sorel, Benjamin and Bataille 60

Reflections on violence 60

Critique of violence 63

The dark night of revolution-without-end 70

6 Differing the people: Derrida and Ranciere 77

A substantive or elided people? 78

Derrida and Ranciere's deconstruction of the people 86

7 On being-together:beyond the subject of human rights 97

Heidegger's Volk 98

The people, the political and community 108

8 On world: biopolitics, singularity and'global'human rights 117

Human rights, biopower and singularity 118 World, globe and capital 127

9 On right-ing: constituent power and human rights 133

Two radical notions of rights 134

Right-ing and the sovereignty of human rights? 141

Notes 147

Bibliography 181

Index 196