ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the respective contributions that two distinct and complementary humanistic modes of critique (genealogy and performativity) make to the project of critically interrogating the human of international human rights law. In short, it argues that each of these modes of engaging human rights problematises and exposes the contingencies of the figure of the human as well as giving us the tools to begin to remake it differently and otherwise. The chapter is written deliberately in the style of a handbook entry, seeking to introduce readers to particular traditions of thought and to encourage them to take them up and develop them.
