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İNSAN HAKLARI "SON ÜTOPYA" MI?

Year 2015, Issue: 20, 181 - 190, 01.12.2015

Abstract

Samuel Moyn'un 'Tarihte Son Ütopya: İnsan Hakları 2010 ' isimli kitabı son dönemlerde insan hakları üzerine yapılmış olan tartışmalara katkı sağlamış en değerli ve münakaşacı eserlerden bir tanesini oluşturmaktadır. Columbia Üniversitesi tarih bölümünde profesör olan Samuel Moyn'un bu geniş kapsamlı ve kritik kitabında özgün bir yaklaşım ortaya atarak insan haklarının yeni bir buluş olduğu görüşü dile getirilmektedir. Samuel Moyn modern insan hakları ile tarihin tozlu sayfalarında yer edinmiş insan hakları arasında keskin bir ayrım yapmaktadır. Yazar, çağdaş insan hakları anlayışını ve özellike İnsan Hakları Evrensel Bildirisi'ni, Komünizm gibi misyonunu tamamlamış ütopyaların ardından gelen son ütopya olarak tanımlamaktadır. Bu çalışmanın temel amacı başta Samuel Moyn'un ortaya attığı ve akademik dünyada gündem oluşturan tartışmalı çalışmasını eleştirel bir şekilde analiz etmek ve insan haklarının son ütopya olup olmadığı sorusunu ayrıntılı bir şekilde incelemektir. Modern insan haklarının bir ütopya olup olmadığı sorusu, tarihsel süreç içerisinde yaşanmış önemli olaylar ele alınarak ve güncel dünyadan alıntılar yapılarak irdelenmeye çalışılacaktır

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ARE HUMAN RIGHTS THE ‟LAST UTOPIAˮ?

Year 2015, Issue: 20, 181 - 190, 01.12.2015

Abstract

Samuel Moyn’s ‘The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History 2010 ’ is one of the most valuable and controversial contributions to human rights of the last decade. In this wide-ranging and critical book, Samuel Moyn, a professor of history at Columbia University, takes a different view that human rights are a relatively new invention. He draws a sharp distinction between the modern concept of human rights and older claims of rights, such as the rights of man from the Enlightenment and the revolutionary period. Moyn regards modern international human rights, in particular Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as ‘the last utopia’, which emerged in an age when other, previously more appealing utopias, died. By analysing Samuel Moyn’s arguments, this paper attempts to address the question of whether modern human rights are the '’last utopia’' or not. In order to answer this question, this paper aims to discuss relevant historical and contemporary examples

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  • AL CHALABI, B. (2014). Why the US should apologise. New Statesman, 143 (4): 16- 16.
  • AMNESTRY INTERNATIONAL (2009). State of the World's right. Available from: [Accessed 10th Jan 2015].
  • AMNESTRY INTERNATIONAL (2007). Sudan: arms continuing to fuel serious human rights . [Accessed 10th Jan 2015]. in Darfur. Available from
  • ANDRASSY, G. (2012). Freedom of language: A universal human right to be recognised. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 19 (2): 195– 232.
  • CHEAH, P. (2013). Human rights and the material making of Humanity: a response to Samuel Moyn’s. Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 22 (1): 55- 61.
  • DONNELLY, J. (2013). Universal human rights in theory and practice. Cornell University Press.
  • GRUNFELD, F. and VERMEULEN, W. (2009). Failures to prevent genocide in Rwanda (1994), Srebrenica (1995), and Darfur (since 2003). Genocide Studies and Prevention, 4 (2): 221-237.
  • HARFF, Barbara (2003). No lessons learned from the Holocaust? Assessing risks of genocide and political mass murder since 1955. American Political Science Review, 97 (1): 57-73.
  • HUGHES, G. (2011). The concept of dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Journal of Religious Ethics, 39 (1): 1-24.
  • ISHAY, M. (2010). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60: a bridge to which future?. Perspectives on Global Development & Technology, 9 (1/2): 11-27.
  • KAHN, R. A. (2014). Should It Matter Where Genocide Denial Is Banned? A Critique of the Nexus Argument. A Critique of the Nexus Argument, 14-32.
  • KLUG, F. (2000). Values for a godless age: The story of the UK’s new Bill of Rights. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.
  • MENNECKE, M. (2009). Genocide Prevention and International Law. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 4 (2): 167-175.
  • MOYN, S. (2010). The last utopia: human rights in history. London: Belknap Press.
  • NICKEL, JAMES W. (1982). Are human rights utopian?. Philosophy & Public Affairs. 11 (3): 246-264.
  • NEIER, A. (2013). Between Dignity and Human Rights. Dissent, 60 (2): 60-65.
  • PRUNIER, G. (2005). Darfur: the ambiguous genocide. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press.
  • ROST, N. (2013). Will it happen again? On the possibility of forecasting the risk of genocide. Journal of Genocide Research, 15 (1): 41–67.
  • STARKEY, H. (2012). Human rights, cosmopolitanism and utopias: implications for citizenship education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 42 (1): 21–35.
  • SUBRAMANIAN, C. (2013). New study estimates nearly 500,000 died in Iraq War. Available from: < http://world.time.com/2013/10/15/new-study-estimates- nearly-500000-died-in-iraq-war/> [Accessed 15th January 2015].
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Primary Language English
Subjects Philosophy
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Emrah Akyuz

Publication Date December 1, 2015
Submission Date January 1, 2015
Published in Issue Year 2015 Issue: 20

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Chicago Akyuz, Emrah. “ARE HUMAN RIGHTS THE ‟LAST UTOPIAˮ?”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, no. 20 (December 2015): 181-90.

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