A politics of human rights – The right to rights as universal right to politics?

Confronted by the charge of depoliticisation levelled at human rights frameworks and interventions, I investigate the possibility of a politics of human rights at the core of democratic politics. In doing so, I am guided by Hannah Arendt’s reconstitutive critique, and Claude Lefort’s analysis of po...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulrike Kistner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2014-08-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1463