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Imagining human rights /
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 huma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Colección: | Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Imagining human rights / Susanne Kaul and David Kim
- "The Sacredness of the Person" or "The Last Utopia" : a conversation about the history of human rights / Hans Joas and Samuel Moyn
- The progressive potential of human rights / Thomas Pogge
- The more who die, the less we care : psychic numbing and genocide / Paul Slovic and Daniel Västfjäll
- On invoking human rights when there aren't any / Rüdiger Bittner
- The cosmopolitics of "Parrhesia" : Foucault and truth-telling as human right / David Kim
- Imagining threatened peoples : the Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) in 1970s West Germany / Lora Wildenthal
- Neoliberal charity : German contraband humanitarians in Kenya / Nina Berman
- Poetic anarchy and human rights : dissensus in Georg Büchner's "Danton's Death" and Peter Weiss's "Marat/Sade" / Sebastian Wogenstein
- The aesthetics of human rights in Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" / Oliver Kohns
- The right to tell that it hurt : fiction and political performance of human rights in South Africa / Michael Bösch and Susanne Kaul
- Embodiment and immigrant rights in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Biutiful" / Elizabeth S. Anker
- Why them and not I? An account of Kalliopi Lemos's art projects about human dignity / Artemis Manolopoulou.