Human Rights : : A Political and Cultural Critique / / Makau Mutua.
In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Human Rights as a Metaphor
- Chapter 2. Human Rights as an Ideology
- Chapter 3. Human Rights and the African Fingerprint
- Chapter 4. Human Rights, Religion, and Proselytism
- Chapter 5. The African State, Human Rights, and Religion
- Chapter 6. The Limits of Rights Discourse
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments