Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective

A debate has unfolded on human rights that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic an...

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Published in:The German quarterly 2020-07, Vol.93 (3), p.390-416
Main Authors: Shell, Susan Meld, Tobin, Robert Deam, Moyd, Michelle, Lützeler, Paul Michael, Bakara, Hadji, Schmidt, Jana, Moyn, Samuel, Huyssen, Andreas, Breger, Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actor-network theory
Cold War
Death
Debates
Human rights
Intellectual History
Politics
Rawls, John (1921-2002)
Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Sovereignty
Transnationalism
War
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Summary:A debate has unfolded on human rights that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8-11). This forum seeks to respond to these controversies with a step back onto scholarly terrain, taking rigorous, historicizing, and focused looks at human rights discourses from a transnationally inflected German Studies angle.
ISSN:0016-8831
1756-1183
DOI:10.1111/gequ.12147