What is it about?
The notion of human rights offer itself as a means to imagine new forms of political community. It does not require that one abandon one's nationality or place of residence. But better than one's nationality or place of residence, it can inspire forms of justice not available in the nation state today, but which one day could become available, in part through this deployment of the human rights idea.
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Why is it important?
Justice for the individual and for groups is important at all levels of social organization in all societies. This article develops an imaginative means toward realizing new or heightened forms of justice opened up by the human rights idea.
Perspectives
Politics as an endeavor to organize human communities is entirely a social construct. What groups and individuals experience in terms of justice depends in part on how politics are imagined, by earlier generations but, in principle, how politics are re-imagined by contemporary generations. The possibility of imagining better forms of sociality is the springboard for the pursuit of justice in political community.
Professor Benjamin Gregg
University of Texas at Austin
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This page is a summary of: Human Rights as Metaphor for Political Community beyond the Nation State, Critical Sociology, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0896920515582092.
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