Human Rights and the Triumph of the Individual in World Culture  

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Elliott, Michael A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Sociology vol. 1 no. 3 (Nov. 2007), page 343-364.
Topik: cult of the individual / globalization / human rights / sacred / world culture
Fulltext: 343.pdf (287.28KB)

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Despite ongoing attention to the subject, cultural accounts of the globalization of human rights are surprisingly scarce. Most accounts describe this phenomenon either as a function of evolutionary progress or the rational/strategic action of states and social movement organizations. As a result, they have difficulty explaining both the moral impulse to act on behalf of human rights and the tremendous expansion of the ideology itself. Borrowing insights from global cultural analysis, I argue that the increasing concern for, and elaboration of, human rights points to a world-cultural environment where the individual is increasingly regarded as sacred and inviolable.To demonstrate this, I explore how human rights have developed historically as a ‘cult of the individual’ and present new data on their recent worldwide expansion.

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