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The aporias of human rights and the meanings of ‘the right to have rights’ : A study on Hannah Arendt’s human rights

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2015, 13(2), pp.149~192
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Park Hyuk 1

1동국대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Today countless violations on human dignity and human rights are found in the phenomena of poverty and inequality, refugees and migrant laborers, ethnic minorities and xenophobia, caused by globalization of capital analyzed by Hannah Arendt as in the situation between World War I and World War II. In the era of totalitarianism, people experienced the void of demanding inalienable rights. Arendt criticized the universality of human rights based on natural rights. This paper aims to understand Arendt's concept of human rights by analyzing aporias of human rights. Also, it will provide a perspective to understand 'the right to have rights' proposed by Arendt as the only and unique human right in three distinguishable meanings.

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