caa a22 4500 467920915 CHVBK 20180406152916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10978-006-0003-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10978-006-0003-y Barreto José School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, London aut Ethics of Emotions as Ethics of Human Rights: A Jurisprudence of Sympathy in Adorno, Horkheimer and Rorty [Elektronische Daten] [José Barreto] This article considers in a different light the relationship between legal theory and ethics by means of an interpretation of the thought of Adorno and Horkheimer, and of the writings of Richard Rorty, as two moments of a marginal stream of ethics of passions that runs beneath the history of rationalist Western philosophy. It departs from the critique of Modernity as a dialectic of barbarism and civilisation, and from a genealogy of Auschwitz that finds its antecedents in Kantian morality. It also characterises modern culture as one of apathy and bourgeois stoicism, and establishes a link between the cold modern ethos and the dynamics of Nazi hardness. The article turns then to a consideration of some of the responses to the comprehensive crisis of Modernity: the imperative ‘Auschwitz never again', Adorno's ‘general enlightenment' and Horkheimer's ethics of sympathy. Finally it reflects upon Rorty's proposal of sentimental education as an effective strategy to foster a human rights culture in Postmodernity, with the aim of bridging the tradition of moral sentiments and contemporary struggles for human rights. Springer, 2006 Adorno nationallicence Auschwitz nationallicence crisis of modernity nationallicence Horkheimer nationallicence human rights nationallicence Kant nationallicence moral sentiments nationallicence Rorty nationallicence sentimental education nationallicence sympathy nationallicence Law and Critique Kluwer Academic Publishers 17/1(2006-04-01), 73-106 0957-8536 17:1<73 2006 17 10978 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-0003-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-006-0003-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Barreto José School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, London aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and Critique Kluwer Academic Publishers 17/1(2006-04-01), 73-106 0957-8536 17:1<73 2006 17 10978 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer