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The politics of human rights / / Andrew Vincent



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Autore: Vincent Andrew Visualizza persona
Titolo: The politics of human rights / / Andrew Vincent Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010
©2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina: 323
Soggetto topico: Human rights
Human rights - History
Social contract
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: The 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 u
Titolo autorizzato: Politics of human rights  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-65951-0
9786612659515
0-19-158504-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459527703321
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