Imagining Human Rights

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction: Imagining Human Rights
The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights
Section One: Claiming Human Rights
	The Progressive Potential of Human Rights
	The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic Numbing and Genocide
	On Invoking Human Rights When There Aren’t Any
	The Cosmopolitics of Parrhesia: Foucault and Truth-Telling as Human Right
	Imagining Threatened Peoples: The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker) in 1970s West Germany
	Neoliberal Charity: German Contraband Humanitarians in Kenya
Section Two: Human Rights in Imagination
	Poetic Anarchy and Human Rights: Dissensus in Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death and Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade
	The Aesthetics of Human Rights in Franz Werfel’s The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
	The Right To Tell That It Hurt: Fiction and Political Performance of Human Rights in South Africa
	Embodiment and Immigrant Rights in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful
	Why Them, and Not I? An Account of Kalliopi Lemos’s Art Projects About Human Dignity
List of Contributors
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects