A humanities of resistance: fragments for a legal history of humanity

Law and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this ‘law and’ enterprise and will spur its further development

ENTRE LA POLIS Y EL COSMOS: EL COSMOPOLITISMO QUE VENDRÁ

A través de una revisión de la tradición cosmopolita, en la cual se desestabiliza la versión corriente de dicha tradición (cínica en vez de estoica) y se la resitúa geográficamente (en Scythia en vez de una Grecia europeizada), el autor propone no solo una genealogía más plural, sino antes bien, una imagen del cosmopolitanismo como resistencia y actividad política de rebeldía que active el pasado en el presente desde el punto de vista de un futuro emancipatorio por venir. Ello resulta en una fuerte crítica del cosmopolitanismo liberal y su reemplazo por una forma anti-imperial y emancipatoria

The “Right to the Event”: the legality and morality of revolution and resistance

The rights of modernity, first and foremost the right to resistance against oppression and domination, were created by revolution. The philosophical rejection and the removal of this right from law was an attempt to foreclose radical change by making a particular conception of legal rights the insurance policy for the established order. The attempt was doomed to fail. This essay examines the legal, jurisprudential and moral arguments for the right to resistance. It concludes that a “right to the event” has always accompanied legal rights in a ghostly form ensuring that the law is regularly shaken to its core and not allowed to become sclerotic

Notes towards an analytics of resistance

New forms, subjects and strategies of resistance have emerged in recent mass protests and insurrections, from the Arab Spring to Spain, Greece, Turkey and Brazil. Insurrections, exodus and democratic experimentation respond to the economic and social landscape of neoliberal capitalism and the biopolitical operation of power. Using historical and recent examples, this essay proposes seven theses on the philosophy of resistance. We have entered a new age of resistance and potentially radical change after fifty years of failures and defeats of the left

Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Resistance: an interview with Costas Douzinas

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Sete teses sobre os direitos humanos

Tradução do texto de autoria do Professor Costas Douzinas publicado na página da “Critical Legal Thinking” no dia 30 de maio de 2013: http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/30/seven-theses-on-human-rights-4-universalism-communitarianism-are-interdependent/. Este escrito consiste na tradução das quatro primeiras teses sobre Direitos Humanos de autoria de Costas Douzinas, denominou-se de “Parte 1” a reunião dos textos: “(1) A ideia de humanidade”; “(2) Poder, moralidade e exclusão institucional”; “(3) Capitalismo neoliberal e imperialismo voluntário”; “(4) Universalismo e Comunitarismo são interdependentes”

As muitas faces do humanitarismo

Who is or what is the 'human' human rights' and "Humanity" of humanitarianism? The question sounds naive, even foolish. However, important philosophical and ontological issues are involved this theme. If you are given rights to beings because of their "humanity", the nature "human", to their needs, characteristics and desires is the normative source of rights. The human definition will determine the substance and scope of rights. Even if we knew who the "Human", when they begin and end their existence and rights to it associated? Fetuses, genetically designed babies ( "designer babies"), clones, people in a permanent vegetative state are fully human? What about animals? The movement to defend the rights of animals, from the militancy of deep ecology and the anti - vivisection until its variations softer green, put on the political agenda the legal differentiation between human or animal firmly and produced a large number of projects animal rights. This article examines the ideology of humanism in its several transformations and permutations. It begins with the history of concepts of humanity and human nature