Seeing the Myth in Human Rights / / Jenna Reinbold.
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mech...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Sacred Myth, Political Myth
- Chapter 2. The Sacred Center of Human Rights
- Chapter 3. The Sacred and the Social
- Chapter 4. The Legal Personality and a New World Order
- Conclusion. Making and Unmaking Myth
- Appendix. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments