Format:
1 online resource (235 pages)
ISBN:
9783110376616
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Imagining Human Rights -- The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights -- Section One: Claiming Human Rights -- The Progressive Potential of Human Rights -- The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic Numbing and Genocide -- On Invoking Human Rights When There Aren't Any -- The Cosmopolitics of Parrhesia: Foucault and Truth-Telling as Human Right -- Imagining Threatened Peoples: The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) in 1970s West Germany -- Neoliberal Charity: German Contraband Humanitarians in Kenya -- 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 -- The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- The Right To Tell That It Hurt: Fiction and Political Performance of Human Rights in South Africa -- 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 -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110376197
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110376197
Language:
English
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