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This chapter provides the book’s theoretical framework and elaborates its focus on the political productivity of the notion of universal crime that accentuates the figures, relationships, and forms of authority and agency entailed by the concept, in contradistinction to individual rights. The chapter argues that the concept of an offense against mankind casts humanity as a normatively unified, yet minimally inclusive and hierarchically ordered, subject of world politics. The notion of universal crime grants normative recognition to the offender against mankind, because the criminal is a figure well recognized within the symbolic order of the law. Nonetheless, this normative inclusion is minimal in the sense that the universal criminal is humanity’s least desired member. Furthermore, universal crime projects humanity as a hierarchically ordered political subject, because those abiding by humanity’s universal law hold the authority to enforce it over those contravening it. |
