Aristodemou, Maria (2015) A squeamishness about existing: Fernando Pessoa's quiet rejection of the human in 'The Book of Disquiet'. In: Ward, I. (ed.) Literature and Human Rights The Law: The Language and the Limitations of Human Rights. Law & Literature 9. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, pp. 67-82. ISBN 9783110368550.
Abstract
Book synopsis: The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in the spirit of interdisciplinarity, reaching across the myriad constitutive disciplines of law, literature and the humanities in order to present an array of alternative perspectives on the nature and meaning of human rights in the modern world. The taking of human rights seriously, it will be suggested, depends just as much on taking seriously the idea of the human as it does the idea of rights.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Official URL for book: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110368550 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Feb 2016 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:22 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14451 |
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