A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities
The ethnocentric legacy of human rights discourse is expressed in individualistic legal and moral approaches that inform most philosophical reflections on human rights. I will sketch a path towards a broader theoretical framework that can better sustain and articulate human rights claims of human di...
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2010
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| author | Baldissone, Riccardo |
| author2 | Julie Lunn |
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| description | The ethnocentric legacy of human rights discourse is expressed in individualistic legal and moral approaches that inform most philosophical reflections on human rights. I will sketch a path towards a broader theoretical framework that can better sustain and articulate human rights claims of human dignity and well-being. For this purpose, I reconsider human rights discourse within the general modern context. In particular, I describe human rights entitlement as an instance of a fundamentalist modern approach that is constructed upon supposedly objective facts that assume the value-free order of nature. I underscore that acknowledging the performativity of science can assist to disentangle contemporary thought in general, and human rights discourse in particular, from modern fundamentalist assumptions. Finally, I suggest that we reconceptualise human rights as the result of negotiation processes, in which all humans are potential stakeholders. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-178672023-01-13T07:56:29Z A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities Baldissone, Riccardo Julie Lunn Christina Houen Anja Reid Janice Baker Thor Kerr Jane Grellier Alex Gerbaz performativity human rights modern synecdoche long sixties multiplicity Latour modern fundamentalisms The ethnocentric legacy of human rights discourse is expressed in individualistic legal and moral approaches that inform most philosophical reflections on human rights. I will sketch a path towards a broader theoretical framework that can better sustain and articulate human rights claims of human dignity and well-being. For this purpose, I reconsider human rights discourse within the general modern context. In particular, I describe human rights entitlement as an instance of a fundamentalist modern approach that is constructed upon supposedly objective facts that assume the value-free order of nature. I underscore that acknowledging the performativity of science can assist to disentangle contemporary thought in general, and human rights discourse in particular, from modern fundamentalist assumptions. Finally, I suggest that we reconceptualise human rights as the result of negotiation processes, in which all humans are potential stakeholders. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17867 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | performativity human rights modern synecdoche long sixties multiplicity Latour modern fundamentalisms Baldissone, Riccardo A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities |
| title | A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities |
| title_full | A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities |
| title_fullStr | A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities |
| title_short | A Way Out of the Seventeenth-Century: Human Rights Beyond Modernities |
| title_sort | way out of the seventeenth-century: human rights beyond modernities |
| topic | performativity human rights modern synecdoche long sixties multiplicity Latour modern fundamentalisms |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17867 |