The meanings of rights: the philosophy and social theory of human rights

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Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (2014)
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Questioning some of the repetitive and narrow theoretical writings on rights, a group of leading intellectuals examine human rights from philosophical, theological, historical, literary and political perspectives.

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K3240.M395 2014

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Against human rights : liberty in the western tradition.John Milbank
All of us without exception" : Sartre, Ranciáere, and the cause of the other.Bruce Robbins
Democracy, human rights and cosmopolitanism : an agonistic approach.Chantal Mouffe
Fanon today.Drucilla Cornell
From "human rights" to "life rights".Walter D. Mignolo
History, normativity, and rights.Paul Patton
However incompletely, human.Joseph R. Slaughter
Human rights : the necessary quest for foundations.Conor Gearty
On a radical politics for human rights.Illan Rua Wall
On human rights : two simple remarks.Costas Douzinas & Conor Gearty
Philosophy and the right to resistance.Costas Douzinas
Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights.Samuel Moyn
Race and the value of the human.Paul Gilroy
Religious faith and human rights.Rowan Williams
Second-generation rights as biopolitical rights.Pheng Cheah
Welcome to the "spiritual kingdom of animals".Slavoj Žižek

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