LEADER 03298oam 2200601I 450 001 9910783298803321 005 20230124181655.0 010 $a1-134-73454-9 010 $a1-134-73455-7 010 $a1-280-48065-3 010 $a9786610480654 010 $a0-203-00773-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203007730 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008623 035 $a(EBL)165108 035 $a(OCoLC)70769244 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000272941 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204307 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272941 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322924 035 $a(PQKB)10521677 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165108 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165108 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017003 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL48065 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008623 100 $a20180331d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWittgenstein, politics and human rights /$fRobin Holt 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cLSE/Routledge,$d1997. 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-75706-1 311 $a0-415-15438-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [142]-167) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; CONTRACTING AND HUMAN RIGHTS; BARRIERS TO BARGAINING; CONFESSION, NOT BARGAINING; 1 Private language...; CONCEPTS AS PICTURES; CONCEPTS AS DEEDS; CONCEPTS AS PRIVATE; CONCEPTS AS UNIVERSALS; 2 ...public rules; RULES AND CRITERIA; RULES AND FORMS OF LIFE; RULES AND CERTAINTY; RULES AND THE PRIMITIVE; 3 Linguistic selves; THE LINGUISTIC SELF AS PUPIL OF RULES AND MYTH; THE LINGUISTIC SELF, IMAGINATION AND WILL; THE SELF AND MACHINES; THE SELF AND MYTHS; THE SELF AND TRUTH; THE SELF AND CORE BEING; 4 Liberal and pragmatic forms; LIBERAL MYTH 327 $aLIBERALISM AND RAWLSPRAGMATIC LIBERALS; PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES; 5 Irony and the art of living; PRAGMATIC TRUTH; PRAGMATIC ELITISM; PRAGMATISM AND SCHISM; PRAGMATISM AND MADNESS; 6 Human rights and rules of civility; BASIC FACTS OF NATURE AND CRITERIA; FACT AND VALUE; CRITERIA AND POSTULATES; RATIONAL POLITICS; CIVIL ASSOCIATION; THE CONVERSATION AND THE GRAMMATICAL; BASIC FACTS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MORAL CONDITIONS; Notes; Index 330 $aDo human rights make sense? They have been central to post-war political life, and our picture of moral self. But this is being eroded, Holt argues, and with it the viability of human rights discourse. The pre-social individual and its mental armoury is being challenged by an increasing awareness of genealogical forces in which the self is less a lone claimant than an exponent or rebel.Using Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book considers the liberal position on human rights, along with the communitarian and pragmatic attacks, and challenges the intelligibility of each from the perspective 606 $aHuman rights 615 0$aHuman rights. 676 $a323/.01 700 $aHolt$b Robin$f1966,$01486809 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783298803321 996 $aWittgenstein, politics and human rights$93706421 997 $aUNINA