Derechos humanos y la pedagogía del miedo: una lectura de 'En la construcción de la Gran Muralla China' de Kafka
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TELOS: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales
ISSN 1317-0570 / ISSN (e) 2343-5763
Vol.
26
(1)
: 215-227.
Enero-Abril
2024
215
Universidad Privada Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacín, Venezuela
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PEDAGOGY OF FEAR: A READING
OF “IN THE CONSTRUCTION TO THE GREAT WALL OF
CHINA” FROM KAFKA
Marcus Vinícius Xavier de Oliveira
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9319-6094
RECIBIDO: 21/08/2023 / ACEPTADO: 18/12/2023 / PUBLICADO: 15/01/2024
ABSTRACT
The work seeks to establish a dialogue between Law, Literature, and Political Philosophy on what
Giorgio Agamben calls "impolitic of exile," and which is perpetrated by the West against people
who seek sur vival through migration, in many cases fleeing wars provoked and/or financed by
the same States that deny the m protection and she lter. In the Kafkanian text that serves as a
paradigm for this work, the narrator, who was one of the thousands of people who worked in the
Construction of the Great Wall of Chin a, describes the reasons, circumstances, and first
construction activities in which, on the one hand, the bureaucratic and unquestionable decision
to carry it out, and on the other hand the justification for it, named in this text as the pedagogy of
fear. Fear from who? Of the northern barbarians, identified as monstrous figures. To us, this
method is a particular aspect of globalization because things that do not have personality have
free transit by the frontiers; persons with fundamental human rights are prohibited from migrating
and searching for a new and good life. The great contradiction: things have a price; persons,
value, and according to the political philosophy of Kant, only what has value is genuinely
important; things are substitutable. And this is the most contradiction of globalization: the minus
value of human beings and their fundamental rights. The work is based on the transdisciplinarity
methodology, characterized by dialogue between knows – in this case, International Human
Rights Law, literature, and Political Philosophy - and criticism, adopting the prevalence of
fundamental principles of Human Rights as a way of protecting human beings in exile.
Keywords: International Human Rights Law; Impolitics of Exile; Pedagogy of Fear; Law and
Literature; Franz Kafka.
Profesor de Der echo Internacional y de Derechos Humanos en la Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Brasil. Líder del Jus Gentium:
Grupo de Estudíos y Pesquisas en Derecho Internacional/CNPq. Membro del International Law Association/Brazil - ILA/Brasil.
marcusoliveira@unir.br
How to cite: De Oliveira, M. (2024). Human Rights and the pedagogy of fear: a reading of “In the
construction to the Great Wall of China” from Kafka. Telos: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios e n
Ciencias Sociales, 26(1), 215-227. www.doi.org/10.36390/telos261.14
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