Seven Theses on Human Rights: (1) The Idea of Humanity
“Thesis 1: The idea of ‘humanity’ has no fixed meaning and cannot act as the source of moral or legal rules. Historically, the idea has been used to classify people into the fully human, the lesser human, and the inhuman.”
— Costas Douzinas
Suárez and Rouse: Masculinity, Sport and Rape Apologies
What is it about the culture of male sports in which violence against women is excused, ignored and even tacitly condoned?
Sumak Kawsay, Interculturality and Decolonialization
Indigenous concepts in the Ecuadorian constitution are not simply variations on political liberalism
On Human Rights: Two Simple Remarks
“Unjustifiable justice, far from founding any kind of rights — as extensive as these may be — opens up instead an infinite perspective that exceeds all possibility of right. From this infinity and to this infinity, all things and every singularity proceed and return. This perspective must remain present beyond the horizon of right; for without an appeal or a sign towards it, right can only fall back into its inevitable fragility, whether of impotence, arbitrariness, relativity or rigidity.”
— Jean-Luc Nancy
