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dc.contributor.authorBaldissone, Riccardo
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:35:24Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:35:24Z
dc.date.created2011-03-29T20:01:38Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationBaldissone, Riccardo. 2010. Human rights: a lingua franca for the multiverse. The international Journal of Human Rights. 14 (7): pp. 1117-1137.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13185
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13642980903068310
dc.description.abstract

Within modern Western thought the demand for human freedom and rights was constructed as the statement of the natural endowment of humans with freedom and rights, on the basis of a fundamental human sameness. This immediate sameness entailed an assimilationist bias, which could instead be overcome by focusing on human similarities. Moreover, if human rights are historical products rather than natural prerogatives, human beings are not only bearers, but also producers of rights, and they are entitled both to claim human rights and to participate in their ongoing construction. Human rights as a growing and expanding language could link the multiplicity of human cultures and natures, and thus play the role of a lingua franca for the multiverse.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectfundamentalism
dc.subjectassimilation
dc.subjectmultiverse
dc.subjecthuman rights
dc.subjectfamily resemblances
dc.subjectmultiplicity
dc.titleHuman rights: a lingua franca for the multiverse
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume14
dcterms.source.number7
dcterms.source.startPage1117
dcterms.source.endPage1137
dcterms.source.issn1364-2987
dcterms.source.titleThe international Journal of Human Rights
curtin.departmentCentre for Human Rights Education
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