In Ulysses, the universalism of Homer's Odyssey is not conceived as an abstract model or formal allegory but is reworked in terms of Irish historical links with the Levant and North Africa, not just the European legacy of classical Greece. In a related manner, the universalism of human rights espoused by the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement to condemn atrocities in the Congo and Putumayo region of the Amazon was considered not in abstract terms but in relation to the ethical memory of Ireland's own "nightmare of history." For Hannah Arendt, such forms of "entailed inheritance" were the basis of human rights, but whereas she looked to rights to curtail oppressors in "civilized" societies, Casement extended rights to the oppressed themselves, decolonizing, like Joyce, the very language of civility.

在《尤利西斯》中，荷马《奥德赛》的普遍主义并不是将其视为抽象模型或正式寓言，而是根据爱尔兰与黎凡特和北非的历史联系进行了重新设计，而不仅仅是古典希腊的欧洲遗产。与此相关的是，爱尔兰革命家罗杰·凯斯门特（Roger Casement）为谴责刚果和亚马逊普图马约地区的暴行而倡导的人权普世主义，并不是以抽象术语来考虑，而是与爱尔兰自身的“历史噩梦”的伦理记忆相关。 ” 对于汉娜·阿伦特来说，这种形式的“必然继承”是人权的基础，但尽管她寻求权利来限制“文明”社会中的压迫者，凯斯门特却将权利扩展到了被压迫者本身，像乔伊斯一样，将权利去殖民化。礼貌。