Author profile: Véronique Pin-Fat

Véronique Pin-Fat is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. She developed “grammatical readings” as an alternative critical approach to IR theory based on ordinary language philosophy. Grammatical readings are an application of the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein to ethics in global politics. Véronique has produced grammatical readings of ethics, subjectivity (including humanism and posthumanism), cosmopolitanism, universality, love, gender, human rights and International Relations theory. Her love of teaching has been recognized by the Political Studies Association (Crick Main Prize for Outstanding Teaching 2006) and the University of Manchester (Teaching Excellence Award 2012).

(Im)possible Universalism: Remarks on the Politics and Ethics of Grammar

Véronique Pin-Fat • Jul 29 2016 • Articles

In the image, what can you see? Understanding the ethical claims to universality in IR is, for heuristic purposes only, similar to looking at the image.

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