International law and ethics after the critical challenge framing the legal within the post-foundational

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-416) and index.

The scope and aims of the book -- International law and the critical challenge -- Reactions to the critical challenge -- A common problematic -- Foucault, ethics and enlightenment -- Rorty, epistemology and literature -- The foundations of a post-foundational ethics -- Kratochwil, rhetoric and communicative action -- Korhonen, situationality and "the cave" -- Franck, democracy and fairness -- Rawls and the law of peoples -- From contradiction to aporia -- The recovery of rhetoric -- The expansion of rhetoric -- The rhetoric of eunomia -- Framing the legal within the post-foundational.