The poetry of rights

IF 0.3 Q3 LAW

Law and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/17521483.2022.2096766

C. Nikolaidis

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Human rights are not simply rights, they are also quintessentially human; and the human experience is filled with emotion. This essay argues that human rights can be understood as emanating from emotions that we are perceived to share. Art in general and poetry in particular can provide a great service in helping us explore and bring these emotions to the fore, thereby reinforcing the distinctively human character of human rights, while also enabling us to understand them as something more than moral or legal constructs. The regulatory, legal, facet of human rights is a fundamental aspect of democratic justice systems. But so is the personal, emotional, facet, which prompts us to celebrate, communicate, debate and re-imagine the nature and content of human rights – within and beyond the courtroom – in a more empathetic and inclusive manner, with reference to the emotions that underpin them.

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权利之诗

摘要人权不仅仅是权利，它也是人的本质；人类的经历充满了情感。这篇文章认为，人权可以被理解为源于我们被认为是共同的情感。一般的艺术，特别是诗歌，可以提供巨大的服务，帮助我们探索并突出这些情感，从而加强人权的独特人性，同时也使我们能够将其理解为道德或法律结构之外的东西。人权的监管、法律方面是民主司法制度的一个基本方面。但个人、情感方面也是如此，这促使我们在法庭内外以更具同理心和包容性的方式，参照支撑人权的情感，庆祝、交流、辩论和重新想象人权的性质和内容。

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期刊介绍： Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.