I, IS A RARE PLEASURE to have one's work closely and thoughtfully engaged. In “Rights as
Critique and the Critique of Rights” Ken Baynes offers a critical analysis of my discussion in …

iel Bell raises the question of the appropriateness of applying “Western” conceptions of
human rights norms to non-Western societies, societies often characterized, at the present …

" A presidential election in America," observed James Bryce," is something to which Europe
can show nothing similar/'For three months, the British visitor wrote," processions, usually …

Clearly, the structure of authority in this country rests on how Americans understand the
nature and relationship of law and politics. Law consists of pronouncements from the courts …

I am delighted and honored that Bound by Recognition has provoked these three insightful
responses. I will not be able, in the space of this reply, to do justice to the full range of …

Basic human or moral rights have played an important role historically in emancipatory
social and political movements, both as a resource for critique and as goals to be pursued …

At a key moment in the 1988 presidential debates, Michael Dukakis claimed that the issue in
the campaign was not ideology but competency. A major reason for Bush's victory was that …

(Bill Connolly) One impressive thing about Gender Trouble was its creative and detailed
elaboration of the Foucauldian idea that the demand to secure a “true identity” or “a core” …

quate compensation; so it is an additional pleasure to be given an occasion to respond to
one of George Kateb's eloquent and subtle disquisitions on the high culture of American …

Benhabib recasts the Derridean idea ofiteration'in democratic terms. While adhering to the
original idea that both the fundamental terms of political consociation and the identity of the …