Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry /

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry / / Michael Ignatieff; ed. by Amy Gutmann.

Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolut...

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VerfasserIn:
Ignatieff, Michael,
MitwirkendeR:
Appiah, K. Anthony,
Gutmann, Amy,
Hollinger, David A.,
Ignatieff, Michael,
Laqueur, Thomas W.,
Orentlicher, Diane F.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Appiah, Kwame Anthony.
Hollinger, David A.
Laqueur, Thomas W.
Orentlicher, Diane F.
HerausgeberIn:
Gutmann, Amy,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2001
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The University Center for Human Values Series ; 39
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY
  • Human Rights as Politics
  • Human Rights as Idolatry
  • COMMENTS
  • Grounding Human Rights
  • Debates with the PTA and Others
  • The Moral Imagination and Human Rights
  • Relativism and Religion
  • RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS
  • Dignity and Agency
  • Contributors
  • Index

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