Tag: Walter Benjamin

A Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights

Ken Booth’s essay, “Three Tyrannies,” from the text, Human Rights in Global Politics (eds. Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler), posits a highly instructive foundation stone, a guide map, for...

By Richard J Tilley June 30, 2024 Community, Conflict Resolution, Critical Theory, Ontology, Space and Place, The Other, United States, Violence
Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World

Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all...

By Richard J Tilley June 4, 2024 Community, Critical Theory, Science Fiction, Violence
Notes and rough drafts: When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice

I. Mishnah Qiddushin 3 outlines that a mamzer may achieve his freedom if his parents are sold into slavery and are then freed, freeing him into normalized relations with Jewish...

By Richard J Tilley May 20, 2024 Critical Theory, Literature

A Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights