02669nam 2200625 450 991045952770332120200520144314.01-282-65951-097866126595150-19-158504-1(CKB)2670000000029805(EBL)547974(OCoLC)646788819(SSID)ssj0000425657(PQKBManifestationID)12130683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425657(PQKBWorkID)10368390(PQKB)10869823(MiAaPQ)EBC547974(Au-PeEL)EBL547974(CaPaEBR)ebr11303756(CaONFJC)MIL265951(EXLCZ)99267000000002980520151006h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics of human rights /Andrew VincentOxford, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Oxford University Press,2010.©20101 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923897-9 0-19-923896-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. Rights; 2. The Context of Rights; 3. The Twilight of Natural Rights; 4. From Genocide to Human Rights; 5. Structures of Human Rights; 6. The Political Dialectic of Human Rights; 7. The Human Rights of Politics; 8. Citizenship and Human Rights; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXThe Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no uHuman rightsHuman rightsHistorySocial contractElectronic books.Human rights.Human rightsHistory.Social contract.323Vincent Andrew476451MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459527703321Politics of human rights244201UNINA