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Human Rights Without Democracy? : : Reconciling Freedom with Equality / / Gret Haller.

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Do Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? Gret Haller argues that Human Rights must be established democratically. Drawing on the works of political philosophers from John Loc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Haller, Gret,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Part I THE NOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRIOR TO 1789
  • Chapter 1 THE PREHISTORY AND THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Chapter 2 FIRST CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Chapter 3 HUMAN RIGHTS, MORALS, AND LAW
  • Part II HUMAN RIGHTS FROM 1789 TO 1989
  • Chapter 4 FROM HUMAN RIGHTS TO POSITIVE LAW
  • Chapter 5 HUMAN RIGHTS, THE STATE, AND DEMOCRACY
  • Chapter 6 POLITICS AND LAW
  • Part III THE CRISIS IN HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE 1989
  • Chapter 7 THE COLD WAR
  • Chapter 8 MORALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Chapter 9 NATURAL RIGHT AND IMPOSED CONCEPTS OF MAN
  • Part IV OUTLOOK
  • Chapter 10 PERSPECTIVES FOR DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY
  • Chapter 11 UNIVERSALITY AND REGIONALIZATION
  • Chapter 12 REPERCUSSIONS FROM THE COLD WAR
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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