Imagining human rights / edited by Susanne Kaul and David Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, David D.

Contributor:

Kaul, Susanne, 1974- editor.

Kim, David, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments / Kaul, Susanne / Kim, David

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Imagining Human Rights / Kaul, Susanne / Kim, David

The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights / Joas, Hans / Moyn, Samuel

Section One: Claiming Human Rights

The Progressive Potential of Human Rights / Pogge, Thomas

The More Who Die, the Less We Care Psychic Numbing and Genocide / Slovic, Paul / Västfjäll, Daniel

On Invoking Human Rights When There Aren't Any / Bittner, Rüdiger

The Cosmopolitics of Parrhesia: Foucault and Truth-Telling as Human Right / Kim, David

Imagining Threatened Peoples: The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) in 1970s West Germany / Wildenthal, Lora

Neoliberal Charity: German Contraband Humanitarians in Kenya / Berman, Nina

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 / Wogenstein, Sebastian

The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh / Kohns, Oliver

The Right To Tell That It Hurt: Fiction and Political Performance of Human Rights in South Africa / Bösch, Michael / Kaul, Susanne

Embodiment and Immigrant Rights in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful

Why Them and Not I? An Account of Kalliopi Lemos's Art Projects About Human Dignity / Manolopoulou, Artemis

List of Contributors

Index of Persons

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-037661-X

3-11-038729-8

OCLC:

925482023