335 KB33 KB199420242000Sützl, Wolfgangngštevilka:1letnik:7str. 71-80ISSN:1318-3222COBISSID:19740765URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-XMPPRDHDenEvropski inštitut za komuniciranje in kulturoJavnost (Ljubljana)človekove pravicehuman rightsKosovonasiljepolitično nasiljeHuman rights in transition| violence and universalism after Kosovo|The legitimisation of the intervention of the west in Kosovo by references to human rights has brought to the surface an inherent problem of universal human rights: the tension between the intention to reduce violence and the claim to universality. This legitimisation of violence on the basis of a universalistic ethical code meant that there was no space from which an effective opposition to the intervention could be argued. The Kosovo war has therefore strengthened the view that violence is in some cases "inevitable," while the disappearance of the opposition has created a new type of "total war." This could mean that human rights are losing their power of de-legitimising violence, and are being transformed into a coinage of power politics. The paper discusses how human rights could be re-thought in such a way that they can de-legitimise violence even when a new strong and "universal" foundation is no longer possible. Referring to the work of Gianni Vattimo, the paper discusses the problem of violence as a manifestation of themetaphysical tradition of western thinking and its quest for secure foundations. It argues that human rights as a reduction of violence must be thought post-metaphysically and proposes an understanding and practice of human rights located between the nihilistic hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo and the neo-pragmatism of Richard Rorty. This understanding of human rights could de-legitimise the new type of organised violence born during the Kosovo war, and allow an understanding of democratic transition beyond the model of a "catching-up process."Legitimacija zahodne intervencije na Kosovu s sklicevanjem na človekove pravice je prinesla na površje inherentni problem univerzalnih človekovih pravic: napetost med namenom zmanjšati nasilje in zahtevo po univerzalnosti. Legitimacija nasilja z univerzalnim etičnim kodeksom je pomenila, da intervenciji dejansko ni bilo mogoče nasprotovati. Vojna na Kosovu je torej okrepila stališče, da je nasilje v nekaterih primerih neizogibno, izginotje opozicije pa je ustvarilo novo vrsto totalne vojne. To bi lahko pomenilo, da človekove pravice izgubljajo svojo moč delegitimacije nasilja in se preoblikujejo v sredstvo politike moči. Članek obravnava možnost ponovnega premisleka o človekovih pravicah, da bi le-te delegitimirale nasilje tudi tedaj, ko ni več trdnega univerzalnega temelja. Upoštevaje delo G. Vattima avtor obravnava problem nasilja kot manifestacije metafizične tradicije zahodnega mišljenja in njegovo prizadevanje za zanesljive temelje. Dokazuje, da je treba človekove pravice kot omejevanje nasilja misliti postmetafizično in predlaga razumevanje in prakso človekovih pravic, ki sta umeščena med nihilistično hermenevtiko G. Vattima in neopragmatizem R. Rortyja. Tako razumevanje bi lahko delegitimiralo novo organizirano nasilje, ki ga je rodila vojna na KosovuTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaEvropski inštitut za komuniciranje in kulturo - EURICOM