Dignity in Adversity : Human Rights in Troubled Times
Seyla. Benhabib
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (312 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1: INTRODUCTION: Cosmopolitanism without Illusions; 2: FROM THE DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the Company of Hannah Arendt; 3: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN PLURALITY IN THE SHADOW OF TOTALITARIANISM Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin; 4: ANOTHER UNIVERSALISM On the Unity and Diversity of Human Rights; 5: IS THERE A HUMAN RIGHT TO DEMOCRACY? Beyond Interventionism and Indifference; 6: TWILIGHT OF SOVEREIGNTY OR THE EMERGENCE OF COSMOPOLITAN NORMS? Rethinking Citizenship in Volatile Times. - 7: CLAIMING RIGHTS ACROSS BORDERS International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty8: DEMOCRATIC EXCLUSIONS AND DEMOCRATIC ITERATIONS Dilemmas of Just Membership and Prospects of Cosmopolitan Federalism; 9: THE RETURN OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY The Scarf Affair in Comparative Constitutional Perspective in France, Germany and Turkey; 10: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN OUR TIMES; NOTES AND REFERENCES; INDEX. - The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial. Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader social transformations that are shaping the modern world. Rejecting the reduction of international human rights to the Trojan horse of a neo-liberal empire's bid for world power, as well as the conse
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| Emner | Human rights -- Political aspects.
Human rights -- Study and teaching. Human rights movements. Human rights theories Vis mer... Human rights
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| ISBN | 9780745654423. - 9780745654430
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