The politics of universalism. Strategic uses of human rights discourses in early modernity
This article investigates the political function of human rights in 16th-century Spain just after the conquest of America. It claims that the study of this period of early globalization is relevant for an understanding of the function of human rights discourses today, at the “end ...
Main Author: | Karen-Margrethe Simonsen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2013-11-01
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Series: | Journal of Aesthetics & Culture |
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Online Access: | http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/download/23157/31138 |
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