Review of: Imke Leicht: Wer findet Gehör? Kritische Reformulierungen des menschenrechtlichen Universialismus. Opladen u.a.: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2016.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14766/1225Keywords:
Demokratie, Gerechtigkeit, Politik, Empowerment, Ungleichheit, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
Imke Leicht succeeds in presenting critical reformulations of the universalism of human rights that are based in the theory of moral philosopher Seyla Benhabib. At the same time she criticizes Benhabib's theory, as Benhabib's universalism failed to grasp the 'really existing' legal exceptions preventing that human rights de facto apply. Leicht draws upon Judith Butler's critique of social norms, as well as upon Gayatri Spivak's critique of postcolonial reason. Despite the critique of normativity as found in Butler and Spivak, Leicht argues that in order to reformulate the universalism of human rights it is crucial to retain a normative distinction between excluding and emancipating norms.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Heike Mauer
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors retain the copyright of their texts. There is no exclusive copyright transfer to querelles-net.
From 2009 on, articles at querelles-net have been published under the terms of a CC BY license:
from 2009-2015 the license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0; from 2016 the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. These licenses allow users to freely use the texts published here, if the author and place of first publication are given. The uses covered by this license do not require separate consent on the part of the authors.
For texts published before 2009, usually no Creative Commons license was given. These texts are freely available, but further uses need to be permitted by the authors.We encourage our authors to publish their texts in other places as well, e.g. repositories.
