ETIKA ILI LJUDSKA PRAVA: IZMEĐU UNIVERZALIZMA I PARTIKULARNIH INTERESA
ETHICS OR HUMAN RIGHTS: BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND PARTICULAR INTERESTS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyze the notion of human rights and their commodification qua institutionalization. The thesis of the paper explores the process of institutionalizing human rights after the Second World War as a direct cause of their commodification ― in trun reducing the autonomy and emancipation to mere legal categories, i.e. empty signifiers. Using the work of several contemporary philosophers, I analyze not only the process of commodification, but that of legal castration too (Douzinas). Legal castration is understood as secondary and it enables us to enter the realm of the social and political. By analyzing universal/particular debate, I show how, despite the ideological formatting present within the human rights discourse, the rights inclose the emancipatory potential within themselves (Rancière, Žižek). The antinomicity concerning the universal/particular debate in this sense produces an important dimension to the human rights discourse; that is, it opens the space of the political, wherein we look for a solution which goes beyond the liberal notions of universalism and particularism.

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