Human Rights Without Democracy? : Reconciling Freedom with Equality /
Do Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? Gret Haller argues that Human Rights must be established democratically. Drawing on the works of political philosophers from John Loc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2012]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Part I THE NOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRIOR TO 1789
- Chapter 1 THE PREHISTORY AND THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- Chapter 2 FIRST CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- Chapter 3 HUMAN RIGHTS, MORALS, AND LAW
- Part II HUMAN RIGHTS FROM 1789 TO 1989
- Chapter 4 FROM HUMAN RIGHTS TO POSITIVE LAW
- Chapter 5 HUMAN RIGHTS, THE STATE, AND DEMOCRACY
- Chapter 6 POLITICS AND LAW
- Part III THE CRISIS IN HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE 1989
- Chapter 7 THE COLD WAR
- Chapter 8 MORALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS
- Chapter 9 NATURAL RIGHT AND IMPOSED CONCEPTS OF MAN
- Part IV OUTLOOK
- Chapter 10 PERSPECTIVES FOR DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY
- Chapter 11 UNIVERSALITY AND REGIONALIZATION
- Chapter 12 REPERCUSSIONS FROM THE COLD WAR
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX