February 2012
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A Rights-Based Utopia?
By Adam Etinson.
“Rather than worry about how we might preserve the utopian status of human rights into the future, we ought to worry about how to rescue utopia from the clutches of human rights. “
A plea for substantive utopias.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing...
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After Utopia?
By Samuel Moyn.
“There is a risk that human rights will be called on to do so much, precisely because no powerful imaginative alternatives exist, that they will lose even the minimal promise of transformation that allow the norms to inspire so many.”
A response to Adam Etinson.
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After Utopia is the title of a...