Human rights and the belief in a just world

• Autores: Günter Frankenberg
• Localización: International journal of constitutional law, ISSN 1474-2640, Vol. 12, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 35-60
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Human rights law has made an astounding career as a globally available vocabulary and narrative for abuses of power, miserable living conditions and a vision of a better world. This success story is challenged by three attempts to unsettle the routines of the overly normativist and romantic discourse: reading the human rights narrative of justification as mythology, ideology, and a story of normalization. The more pragmatic and skeptical assessment is meant to defend the polemical origins of human rights.