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Insurgent universality: an alternative legacy of modernity

By Massimiliano , Tomba

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780190883119, 0190883111
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13992240 bytes)
Pages
1\305
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Human rights--Philosophy;Universalism;Human rights

Description

Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at all times and all places. But as recent crises around migrants and refugees have made obvious, this idea, sacred as it might be among human rights advocates, is exhausted. This book suggests that we need to think of a different idea of universality that exceeds the juridical universialism of the Declaration.

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