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Una teoría de la justicia: Nietzsche contra la dignidad humana como fundamento de la comunidad política

2011

La moderna sociedad burguesa contiene para Nietzsche elementos que amenazan con provocar una reordenación total de la política y la sociedad en sentido igualitario. Con el objetivo de contribuir a frustrar el desarrollo de la cultura alemana en esa dirección -y basándose en su reconstrucción personal de la metafísica de Schopenhauer- expone la necesidad de someter políticamente a la mayoría de los seres humanos en favor de unos pocos liberados de la lucha por la existencia, así como de configurar el Estado de manera militarista. El fin de esta utopía consiste en llegar a hacer posible, entre algunos escogidos, una forma de vida en la cual no impere ya la racionalidad instrumental. ABSTRACT.…

Schiavitù, servitù e sfruttamento lavorativo

2022

La pronuncia in commento individua il limite discretivo tra gli artt. 600 e 603-bis c.p. nella mancanza di alternative esistenziali, quale contenuto della situazione di vulnerabilità richiesta dalla fattispecie di riduzione o mantenimento in schiavitù o servitù ex art. 600 c.p. L’art. 603-bis c.p. configurerebbe, invece, un’area nella quale la condotta del datore di lavoro non determina una compressione altrettanto rilevante della libertà di autodeterminazione del lavoratore, ma che, allo stesso tempo, non possa neppure essere liquidata come una violazione meramente formale della normativa giuslavoristica.

El escamoteo del tercer papel del Patriarca Ribera a favor de la expulsión de los moriscos

2009

D. Juan de Ribera, arzobispo de Valencia, escribió tres memoriales a Felipe III en 1601-1602. En ellos propugnaba la expulsión de los moriscos, aconsejaba que se comenzase por los castellanos y consideraba lícito venderlos como esclavos. Su primer biógrafo, el jesuita P. Francisco Escrivá, ocultó esta última propuesta. En el texto se trata de reconstruir el contenido del «tercer papel» de Ribera, manipulado por Escrivá. D. Juan de Ribera, archbishop of Valencia, wrote three memorials to Philip III in 1601-1602. In them he was supporting the expulsion of the Moriscos, was advising that it should begin by the Castilians and was considering lawfully to sell them as slaves. His first biographer…

The black female slave takes literary revenge: Female gothic motifs against slavery in Hannah Crafts’s "The Bondwoman’s Narrative"

2015

The Bondwoman’s Narrative is a novel that functions as a story made up from Hannah Crafts’s experiences as a bondwoman and thus merges fact and fiction giving a thoroughly new account of slavery both committed to reality and fiction. Following and taking over the Gothic literary genre that spread in Europe as a reaction toward the Romantic spirit, Crafts uses it to denounce the degrading slavery system and, mainly, to scathingly attack the patriarchal roots that stigmatize black women as the ultimate victims. It is my contention that Hannah Crafts uses the female Gothic literary devices both to attack slavery and also to stand as a proper (African) American citizen capable of relating to th…

Le combat de Victor Schoelcher contre la légalité de l'esclavage : l'abolition de 1848

2009

How has the French State been able to maintain slavery for more than fifty years after the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen of 1789? The slave was considered, in a legal scope, not as a person but as a « movable », he was considered as an object that could be bought, sold, mutilated and tortured! Abolished for the first time in 1794, reinstated in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, slavery would definitively disappear in France only in 1848, thanks to Victor Schoelcher's (1804-1893) decisive action. This great humanist, by a tireless fight, managed to impose an immediate abolition – and not a progressive one as in Britain – showing that if this institution was certainly legal, it wa…

“A Modern Slave Song:” Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery

2019

International audience; From early ska tunes to modern-day dancehall sounds, Jamaican popular music has been a privileged site for the re/creation and transmission of a communal memory of slavery, within Jamaican society itself but also in the broader context of the African and Afro-Caribbean diasporas. The lyrics of reggae songs constitute a vast textual repertoire where a predominantly oral discourse on slavery is produced and circulated, mostly outside institutional circles. In such texts, slavery serves as a memorial matrix which fosters a sense of identity, community and resistance for Afro-Caribbean people around the world. This chapter examines a corpus of 250 song lyrics dedicated t…

A Chain of Voices: A "Masters and Slaves" Narrative

2022

Because no less than thirty different narrators take turns to tell us the story of a slave revolt, A Chain of Voices can be read as Brink's attempt at revisiting the classical "slave narrative", turning it into a polyphonic "masters and slaves" narrative in which everyone is given a say. This article examines how this polyphonic, and even multifocal, mode of narration enables Brink to write back to both classical slave narratives and to their twentieth-century counterparts, the neo-slave narratives. What it suggests is that although A Chain of Voices bears many resemblances to neo-slave narratives in terms of form, especially because of its recourse to polyphony, it is also extremely close …

Displacing slavery: physical and literary journeys in The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead

2023

Droit romain et Code Noir. Quelques réflexions a posteriori

2015

In Roman times, slavery is domestic, before conquests transformed its nature. Colonial slavery is an economic exploitation based on slave trade. How do the administrators apprehend the slave’s legal status ? Does the Code noir follow local rules or Roman precedents to supervise practice, according to some expected effects on the settlers’s property ? If Roman law serves as a matrix, is it as a simple recovery or as an indirect influence ? The spirit of antique solutions is present, but it is not essential for the legal definition of "Negros". The Roman law provides a conceptual tool to understand a posteriori the inner wheels of a specific status, at the turning point between property right…

A Finnish socialist female parliamentarian stopped on the Dutch border

2020

A Finnish socialist female parliamentarian stopped on the Dutch border: the (de) politicization of Finnish women’s suffrage in Dutch battles on votes for women This research article in transnational history analyses an incident during which Hilja Pärssinen, a Finnish socialist woman MP, was stopped on the Dutch border in September 1913 on her way to visit a suffragette college in London. This two-hour event at the border and public controversy that followed were clashes between competing ideological and gendered discourses on women’s political agency. The incident was a nexus of intersecting discourses on a range of issues: Dutch and international debates on women’s suffrage, discourse on ‘…