Reflections on the Origins of Human Rights (Talal Asad Lecture)
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September 28, 2009 | The enormous academic interest in human rights is reflected in several excellent histories. Although there has been some disagreement over the origins of human rights, most scholars acknowledge their modern European provenance. In his talk, Talal Asad took it for granted that their origins do not make human rights inappropriate to non-European cultures. Through a discussion of two recent contributions--John Headley's The Europeanization of the World; On the Origins of Human Rights and Democracy, and Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights--he explored two concepts generally regarded as central to human rights: "humanity" and "sympathy."
This event was co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
An excellent talk on a very interesting and important topic of universal and international nature. Talal Asad is really an accomplished scholar of no match!
great voice
This is a GREAT historical observation, which is at the same time western and repetitive. There is a sense of continuous Eurocentrism in the western postcolonial scholarship. These are beautiful and grand words when they are taken as western self-criticism. But in the Middle Eastern context and former colonies, they often bring nothing, except possible hatred and self-victimization. I read somewhere that Bin Ladan used to quote postcolonial thinkers. This rhetoric is quite appealing to the Sunni fundamentalists and to the Shia ayatollahs, all love postcolonialism because of its eloquent criticism of "The Enemy" and for justifying their Islamist atrocity. In Middle Eastern postcolonialism, where does the criticism of the "other" stop and where does self reflection begin?
Where can I possibly get a script of this lecture? Thanks!
renaissance humanism, begin secular vision universal moral order askip :
-idea of humanity, subject of universal human rights
-sympathy, psychological engine sustaining solidarity underpinning those rights