Imagining Human Rights

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2015

Imagining Human Rights

Edited by: Susanne Kaul and David Kim

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376616

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Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary conversations about the origin and language of human rights, personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of human rights.

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Susanne Kaul, University of Münster, Germany; David D. Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	III
Acknowledgments Susanne Kaul and David Kim Open Access Download PDF	V
Table Of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Imagining Human Rights Susanne Kaul and David Kim Open Access Download PDF	1
The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights Hans Joas and Samuel Moyn Open Access Download PDF	9
Section One: Claiming Human Rights
The Progressive Potential of Human Rights Thomas Pogge Open Access Download PDF	35
The More Who Die, the Less We Care Psychic Numbing and Genocide Paul Slovic and Daniel Västfjäll Open Access Download PDF	55
On Invoking Human Rights When There Aren’t Any Rüdiger Bittner Open Access Download PDF	69
The Cosmopolitics of Parrhesia: Foucault and Truth-Telling as Human Right David Kim Open Access Download PDF	83
Imagining Threatened Peoples: The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) in 1970s West Germany Lora Wildenthal Open Access Download PDF	101
Neoliberal Charity: German Contraband Humanitarians in Kenya Nina Berman Open Access Download PDF	119
Section Two: Human Rights In Imagination
Poetic Anarchy and Human Rights: Dissensus in Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death and Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade Sebastian Wogenstein Open Access Download PDF	139
The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh Oliver Kohns Open Access Download PDF	157
The Right To Tell That It Hurt: Fiction and Political Performance of Human Rights in South Africa Michael Bösch and Susanne Kaul Open Access Download PDF	173
Embodiment and Immigrant Rights in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful Open Access Download PDF	187
Why Them and Not I? An Account of Kalliopi Lemos’s Art Projects About Human Dignity Artemis Manolopoulou Open Access Download PDF	201
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	217
Index of Persons Open Access Download PDF	221
Index of Subjects Open Access Download PDF	225

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 227
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
- Tables: 1
Keywords: literature; dignity; justice; law

eBook

Published: September 25, 2015
ISBN: 9783110376616

Hardcover

Published: September 25, 2015
ISBN: 9783110376197

Paperback

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110578256