d’Aspremont on Affects, Emotions and the Cartesian Epistemology of International Law@JdA_IntLaw @law_uom @sciencespo

Jean d’Aspremont, University of Manchester School of Law; Sciences Po Law School, has published Affects, Emotions and the Cartesian Epistemology of International Law as The University of Manchester Legal Research Paper Series No. 24/07. Here is the abstract.

Had the clash between Cartesian transcendence and Spinozian immanence taken a different turn, the world would most plausibly be a very different type of place and international law a fundamentally dissimilar argumentative practice. This short essay offers some thoughts on what international law would look like today had international lawyers not espoused their usual Cartesian crude empiricism. On that occasion, it reflects on a possible ‘turn to emotions’ in international law.

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.