NDLI: Imagining Human Rights: Utopia or Ideology?

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Author	Bottici, Chiara
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Human rights are both a means for the ideological justification of the status quo and for its utopian subversion. In order to account for this paradox we need to consider the role that our capacity to form images plays in human rights discourses. I will first discuss how best to conceptualise the capacity to produce images, which is the focus of this paper. In order to go beyond the impasse generated by philosophical approaches to imagination as an individual faculty, and by sociological approaches to the imaginary understood as a social context, I propose to use the category of the ‘imaginal’, understood simply as that which is made of images and can therefore be both the product of an individual faculty and a social context. Second, I show how the imaginal enters the three major strategies of justifications of human rights, when we think of them as ‘human’, as ‘rights’ and as ‘rational’. Finally, I will show that the imaginal is also the force that compels us to enforce human rights, to put ourselves in the shoes of others and imagine a world that is different from the one in which we are currently living.
Starting Page	111
Ending Page	130
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09578536
Journal	Law and Critique
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728617
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-03-31
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Humanity Ideology Imaginal Imaginary Imagination Utopia Criminology & Criminal Justice Political Philosophy Law Theory/Law Philosophy Roman Law/Law History/Canon Law Philosophy of Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law

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