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&#x20...

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Main Author: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013-11-01
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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