The commonly shared sentiment that human rights have reached a crisis in the form of a populist backlash has produced a vibrant discussion on the causes of and solutions to the crisis. This article seeks to contribute to that discussion by engaging with Philip Alston's important and influential essay on the topic, and in particular with his project of tackling material inequality. While agreeing with Alston that a key reason for the populist backlash is material inequality, the article challenges his view that the solution to the problem is to double down on 'familiar strategies' by simply providing social and economic rights a more prominent position within the human rights project. By contrast, the article suggests that a radical renewal of the human rights movement is called for – one accompanied by a more elaborate diagnosis of how human rights have been linked to inequalities and how they can engage with the structures and actors producing those inequalities. Trying to understand why human rights have lost ground to nationalism, the article suggests that a first step towards such more radical and dynamic human rights might be to unearth the now largely forgotten concept of solidarity. ; Peer reviewed
Gracias a las contribuciones de especialistas con diferentes formaciones y trayectorias, este volumen intenta fomentar unas cuantas incursiones en las fronteras que los supuestos de la Ilustración han conseguido cimentar en los proyectos levantados por la cultura jurídica occidental de los últimos tres siglos. Con una perspectiva diacrónica y transatlántica los autores se confrontan con las dinámicas donde la frontera se torcía en perímetro y se hacía límite, capaz de estabilizar y absorber las tensiones estructurales de la sociedad, para luego abrirse o quebrarse, cuando la ilusión de haber alcanzado el edificio perfecto chocaba con el descubrimiento de grietas estructurales. De allí que en estos momentos se reactivase una reflexión sobre los cimientos que habían puesto voluntad e individuo como elementos inexcusables (que no significa exclusivos) de la declinación de lo político y de lo jurídico de un Occidente que llega a hacer, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, del hombre-ciudadano y de sus derechos los parámetros de la humanidad, alcanzado la frontera donde todavía hoy se está moviendo la reflexión y la praxis del poder. ; Thanks to the specialist's contributions with different backgrounds and trajectories, this volume attempts to encourage a few forays into the frontiers of Enlightenment assumptions. These assumptions have managed to cement in the projects raised by Western legal culture over the last three centuries. With a diachronic and transatlantic perspective, the contributors confront the dynamics where the border became a perimeter and a limit. Border conceives capable of stabilising and absorbing society's structural tensions, only to open up or break, when the illusion of having reached the perfect building collided with the discovery of structural cracks. Hence, at this time, it rised a reflection on the foundations that had made the will and the individual the inexcusable (which does not mean exclusive) elements of the decline of the political and legal aspects of the Western culture. In the second half of the 20th century, this 'West' came to make man-citizen and his rights the parameters of the humanity, reaching the frontier where the reflection and praxis of power are still moving today. ; A modo de introducción (pp. 9-15). -- Oltre le frontiere: ipotesi per una 'entangled history' del discorso dei diritti nel secondo Settecento / Pietro Costa (pp. 17-47). -- Crossing Temporal Boundaries. Lodovico Antonio Muratori's Notetaking Practice and the Material Circulation of the Thinking on Law between the 16th and 18th Centuries / Manuela Bragagnolo (pp. 49-78). -- Tradición y nuevas ideas en Vicente Vizcaíno: un jurista de las postrimerías del Antiguo Régimen / Belinda Rodríguez Arrocha (pp. 79-114). -- Lecturas jurídicas de la Nueva España en tiempos preconstitucionales (1750-1808). Una aproximación desde los fondos bibliográficos de la Biblioteca Nacional de México / Óscar Hernández Santiago (pp. 115-144). -- Iluminismo y derecho penal en Portugal: una contribución desde las decisiones de la Casa da Suplicação (siglo XVIII) / Gustavo César Machado Cabral (pp. 145-162). -- Interweaving Legal Sources for a Natural Law and Law of Nations across the Ocean: Domingo Muriel (1718-1795) / Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina (pp. 163-186). -- Morte civile e diritti dell'uomo: la positivizzazione dei diritti tra Illuminismo e Restaurazione e tra costituzioni e codici / Antonio Trampus (pp. 187-208). -- L'Illuminismo siciliano e le sue frontiere nell'opera del giurista Antonino Pepi / Francesco di Chiara (pp. 209-235). -- Las fronteras del constitucionalismo español de entreguerras: una reflexión en clave diacrónica / Giacomo Demarchi (pp. 237-253). -- Circolazione diacronica e sincronica al diritto alla libera manifestazione del pensiero / Irene Spigno (pp. 255-284). -- From Utopia to Efficiency / Luca Bonadiman, Richard Clements (pp. 285-313).
