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Concrete Utopia: Looking Back Into the Future of Human Rights

Concrete Utopia: Looking Back Into the Future of Human Rights

Kaleck, Wolfgang

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General SociologyGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 1682194396
ISBN13: 9781682194393
Publisher: OR Books
Published: Feb 20 2024
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Concrete Utopia  conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a backward-looking endeavor, which, in order to move forward, must return to the utopian roots of its foundational documents. 


Human rights advance by judging the ills of the present world from a standpoint in the future where they might no longer exist-a fundamentally utopian gesture. This peculiar character of human rights makes them continually ripe for reinvention and for responding to changing world circumstances. Looking at topics such as the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt in the mid-1960s, public outrage to the Vietnam War, the US civil rights movement and the founding of Amnesty International in 1961, this book surveys the history of human rights and how they have been reconceived at different points in time. It closes by sketching the way they may be re-envisioned for new struggles in the 21st century.

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