UID:
edocfu_9959227927202883
Format:
1 online resource (347 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-73454-9
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1-134-73455-7
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1-280-48065-3
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9786610480654
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0-203-00773-5
Content:
Do human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel.Using Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book considers the liberal position on human rights, along with the communitarian and pragmatic attacks, and challenges the intelligibility of each from the perspective
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; CONTRACTING AND HUMAN RIGHTS; BARRIERS TO BARGAINING; CONFESSION, NOT BARGAINING; 1 Private language...; CONCEPTS AS PICTURES; CONCEPTS AS DEEDS; CONCEPTS AS PRIVATE; CONCEPTS AS UNIVERSALS; 2 ...public rules; RULES AND CRITERIA; RULES AND FORMS OF LIFE; RULES AND CERTAINTY; RULES AND THE PRIMITIVE; 3 Linguistic selves; THE LINGUISTIC SELF AS PUPIL OF RULES AND MYTH; THE LINGUISTIC SELF, IMAGINATION AND WILL; THE SELF AND MACHINES; THE SELF AND MYTHS; THE SELF AND TRUTH; THE SELF AND CORE BEING; 4 Liberal and pragmatic forms; LIBERAL MYTH
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LIBERALISM AND RAWLSPRAGMATIC LIBERALS; PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES; 5 Irony and the art of living; PRAGMATIC TRUTH; PRAGMATIC ELITISM; PRAGMATISM AND SCHISM; PRAGMATISM AND MADNESS; 6 Human rights and rules of civility; BASIC FACTS OF NATURE AND CRITERIA; FACT AND VALUE; CRITERIA AND POSTULATES; RATIONAL POLITICS; CIVIL ASSOCIATION; THE CONVERSATION AND THE GRAMMATICAL; BASIC FACTS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MORAL CONDITIONS; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75706-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-15438-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203007730
