23 July 2020
The co-author of “The Tragedy of Human Rights” responds to his critics in the special Dossier A World Without Human Rights?
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- 17 July 2020A response to Adam Seligman and David Montgomery’s paper “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- 15 July 2020A response to Adam Seligman and David Montgomery’s “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- Lucia Bellucci 9 July 2020A response to Adam Seligman and David Montgomery’s “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- 18 June 2020A response to Adam Seligman and David Montgomery’s “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- 16 June 2020A coherent classical liberal vision is grounded on the belief that the primary issue, due to its universality, is the safeguard of individual autonomy, governed by a legal system capable of protecting and promoting it.
- 5 June 2020A comment on Seligman and Montgomery’s “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- 28 May 2020A response to Adam Seligman and David Montgomery’s “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- 25 May 2020A response to Seligman and Montgomery’s “The Tragedy of Human Rights”
- 19 May 2020In this paper, the authors argue here that human rights are as much the problem as they are the solution to the contemporary challenge of constructing civil society, observing that the seemingly inherent long-term social and political consequences of close to half a century of advocating human rights to the exclusion of other components of human good and fulfillment have been at the expense of any sense of shared belonging. Delineating between rights and belonging, they show how the extreme right has latched on to a tangible argument for belonging while the left has responded by continuing to advocate for abstract, universal, and unencumbered human rights to the detriment of its efforts to build civil society.
