Corporeal Mentality”
The Book of Blood , Universal Human Rights, and the Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12720185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Mooney (0000-0002-7411-0195, University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 480-497 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-4835 • E-ISSN: 1475-4843 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14754835.2014.886954 |
| OpenAlex | W2046129415 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
New ways of looking at texts may help to protect the basis of human rights: that all people are recognized as people. This article develops an interpretative convention, the “corporeal mentality,” to compel consideration of the corporeal nature of human beings when reading human rights texts. Attention is paid to the status and history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as well as to an artwork that writes this text in human blood: The Book of Blood. By considering the meaning of blood as both signifier and index, I argue that blood and the body it indexes can inform a new interpretative convention that recognizes that all people have something in common: blood and bodies. This convention can also be justified by acknowledging that all texts are both visual and corporeal. A reading of a single article of the UDHR shows how the corporeal mentality functions in practice
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |