Politics of Human Rights

Name: Politics of Human Rights
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ISBN: 9781859843734

ISBN-10: 1859843735

ISBN-13: 9781859843734

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Belgrade Circle Staff, Obrad Savic, Jean Baudrillard, Noam Chomsky, Terry Eagleton

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This volume describes the political and philosophical basis to the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of original essays. It insists that the campaign for human rights must take into account the social and economic environments.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 10/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jean Baudrillard has been proclaimed as the "prophet of postmodernity." Among his many books are America, Cool Memories Iand II, The Illusion of the End, Simulacra and Simulation,and The Perfect Crime.

Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of more than 80 books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.



Preface




The Politics of Human Rights


Introduction: The Global and the Local in Human Rights




The Law of Peoples




The Rights of Man and Good Will




Private and Public Autonomy, Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty




Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality




Law, Solidarity and the Tasks of Philosophy




Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights




Majority Rule and Individual Rights




Are Human Rights Truly Universal?




Democracy and Human Rights under Different Conditions of Development




The Other's Rights




Human Rights in the 'New Europe'




Hobbes, 'Fearful Discourse', and the Basic Right to Refuse to Bear Arms during Military Service




The Legal Status of National Minorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia




Women's Rights as Human Rights




Subversive Discourse



Political Theory and the Problem of Violence




Local and Global




Time of Consumption and the Consumption of Time




The Perfect Crime




Inventory of Texts



'A Painful Peace'




Critique and Analysis in Media Studies




Metaphor, Ontology and Scientific Truth




War in the Tribal Zone: Yugoslavia



Parallel Worlds




Speed Memories (III)



Bibliography



Notes on Contributors