Inheriting a Tragic Ethos

Learning from Radhabinod Pal

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ID3752102
AutoresAbrahim H Khan (0000-0003-0544-5466, autor correspondente), Adil Hasan Khan
Ano2016
Volume110
Páginas25-30
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAJIL Unbound (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2398-7723 • E-ISSN: 2398-7723
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s2398772300002348
OpenAlexW2738698072
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas7

This terrible thing we're witnessing now is Not unique; you know it happened before Or something like it. We're not at a loss how to think about it We're not without guidance... Anne Carson, Antigonick (2012). International law can, and times has, involved the performance of another way of living with, of accepting, uncertainty... Anne Orford, The Destiny of International Law (2005). We in the postcolony currently inhabit times constituted by the aftermaths of the catastrophic failures and tragic reversals of countless projects of global redemption and by the bereavement of their promised futures. As Simon Critchley observes, the experience of disorientation produced by such tragedies acutely raises the problem of action: "[E]xpressed in one bewildered and repeated question . . . what shall I do?" This essay takes this problem as its central concern by asking specifically how international lawyers should act in these "tragic times

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