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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marneros, Christos

Titel

'Human rights do not exist': Thinking about and beyond the existence of human rights

Ist Teil von

• Australian journal of human rights, 2023-08, Vol.29 (2), p.299-313

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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• This article examines the critical positions taken by two prominent figures of the twentieth-century philosophical tradition, Panajotis Kondylis and Gilles Deleuze, regarding the existence of human rights. In their ways, both thinkers identify a problem with the (non)existence of human rights, particularly with human rights' invocation of universal or eternal values. According to Deleuze, this all-encompassing, universalist language of human rights promotes a problematic way of thinking that 'thinks' in abstraction. For Kondylis, human rights do not exist, as their universalist claims are a matter of political exploitation and/or conceptual confusion. By focusing on the interplay between nonexistence and 'sham' or 'abstract existence', this article aims to critically examine our ways of thinking, in terms of human rights or beyond them, and how such a problematisation may pave the way for further discussions regarding the (non)place of human rights in our contemporary and future state of affairs.