José-Manuel Barreto (Bogotá/Bonn): Art, Emotions and the Human Rights Culture: Sentimental Education and the Work of Bill Viola, Sebastião Salgado and Fernando Botero

Abstract

For Rorty the question about the cultural struggle for human rights in times of globalisation finds one of its answers in the sensibilisation of the epoch. Thus, the actualisation or strengthening of the human rights culture can be pursued by a long-term process aimed at advancing the sentimental education of individuals and societies in the virtue of sympathy – a ‘global moral warming’ of the political culture of our times. Within this theoretical framework, this presentation aims at exploring the connection between art, emotions and the human rights culture by analysing the work of three contemporary artists: the video-artist Bill Viola, the photographer Sebastião Salgado, and the painter Fernando Botero.

Dr. José-Manuel Barreto

Curriculum Vitae

Der Rechtsphilosoph José-Manuel Barreto wurde 2009 mit seiner Dissertation „The Decolonial Turn and Sympathy: A Critique of the Eurocentric and Rationalist Theory of Human Rights“ am Birkbeck College der University of London promoviert. Er war Fellow am Goldsmiths College, University of London, und am Forschungsprogramm „Rechtskulturen“ an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Dr. Barreto ist Herausgeber des Sammelbandes “Human Rights from a Third-World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013). Seit Oktober 2014 ist er Fellow am Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Recht als Kultur“.