Just to add to that, Asad's fairly recent book _Formations of Secularism_
expands on his discussion of human rights. It is, by the way, a very good
and also challenging book by someone who is deeply informed by Foucault but
does not (at least in this work) make overt use of Foucauldian
concepts/terminology. It also manages to be both timely (in its
illuminating discussion of others call American imperialism) and untimely
(in the Nietzschean sense).
-Nate
At 05:31 AM 7/6/2004, you wrote:
>Remembering the exchange that ocurred on this list a little while ago
>on the subject of Human Rights I thought some might find this essay
>interesting:
>
>Asad, T. 2000 "What Do Human Rights Do? An Anthropological Enquiry"
>Theory & Event 4:4
>
>I found it while browsing the Project Muse journal database. It is not
>really anthropological at all, rather, it begins to trace human rights
>as event.
>
>Cheerio,
>Glen.
>
>
>--
>PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Research
>University of Western Sydney
expands on his discussion of human rights. It is, by the way, a very good
and also challenging book by someone who is deeply informed by Foucault but
does not (at least in this work) make overt use of Foucauldian
concepts/terminology. It also manages to be both timely (in its
illuminating discussion of others call American imperialism) and untimely
(in the Nietzschean sense).
-Nate
At 05:31 AM 7/6/2004, you wrote:
>Remembering the exchange that ocurred on this list a little while ago
>on the subject of Human Rights I thought some might find this essay
>interesting:
>
>Asad, T. 2000 "What Do Human Rights Do? An Anthropological Enquiry"
>Theory & Event 4:4
>
>I found it while browsing the Project Muse journal database. It is not
>really anthropological at all, rather, it begins to trace human rights
>as event.
>
>Cheerio,
>Glen.
>
>
>--
>PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Research
>University of Western Sydney