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- Law and the Epistemologies of the South
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY
- Law and the Epistemologies of the South
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part One The Tragic Optimism of the Law: THE END OF A STORY
- Part Two Epistemologies of the South and the Law
- Part Three The Abyssal Law under the Mode of Abyssal Exclusion
- Part Four Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting the State
- Part Five Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting the Law
- Part Six Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting Hegemonic Human Rights
- Nineteen Human Rights in a Post-Secular Age: Counter-Hegemony and Progressive Theologies
- Twenty Towards an Insurgent, Intercultural, and Cosmopolitan Declaration of Human Rights and Duties
- Twenty-One Rights of Nature
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Conclusion
from Part Six - Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting Hegemonic Human Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2023
- Law and the Epistemologies of the South
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY
- Law and the Epistemologies of the South
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part One The Tragic Optimism of the Law: THE END OF A STORY
- Part Two Epistemologies of the South and the Law
- Part Three The Abyssal Law under the Mode of Abyssal Exclusion
- Part Four Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting the State
- Part Five Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting the Law
- Part Six Real Legal Utopias: Interrupting Hegemonic Human Rights
- Nineteen Human Rights in a Post-Secular Age: Counter-Hegemony and Progressive Theologies
- Twenty Towards an Insurgent, Intercultural, and Cosmopolitan Declaration of Human Rights and Duties
- Twenty-One Rights of Nature
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
As mentioned in Chapter 1, in his Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci introduced the concept of the interregnum in contemporary politics (1972). Whereas in the Middle Ages the term referred to the period between the death or abdication of a king and the crowning of the next one, for Gramsci the interregnum was related to the period of transition between the old Italy and the new Italy. He famously described it thus: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ (1972: 276). We definitely live in an interregnum.
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- Law and the Epistemologies of the South , pp. 670 - 676Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023