Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 262 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780199238965
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1282659510
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9781282659513
Content:
The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no u
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-255) and index
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CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. Rights; 2. The Context of Rights; 3. The Twilight of Natural Rights; 4. From Genocide to Human Rights; 5. Structures of Human Rights; 6. The Political Dialectic of Human Rights; 7. The Human Rights of Politics; 8. Citizenship and Human Rights; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780191585043
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199238965
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199238972
Additional Edition:
ISBN 128265876X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Politics of Human Rights
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=547974
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