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Self-evident truths? : human rights and the Enlightenment /
The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists transla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: Human rights today : an Englightenment legacy?
- Rethinking human rights and Englightenment : a view from the twenty-first century / James Tully
- A response to James Tully / Christopher Brooke
- "That the general will is indestructible": from a citizen of Geneva to the citizens of Gaza / Karma Nabulsi
- Singular and exemplary : the theory and experience of citizenship in Rousseau. A response to Karma Nabulsi / Ourida Mostefai
- Cosmopolitanism after Kant : claiming rights across borders in a new century / Seyla Benhabib
- The making of norms versus the making of a rights-bearing subject : a response to Seyla Benhabib / Saskia Sassen
- Part two: Revolutions and declarations
- Philosophy, religion and the controversy about basic human rights in 1789 / Jonathan Israel
- A response to Jonathan Israel / Dan Edelstein
- Slavery, emancipation and human rights / Robin Blackburn
- Rights, resistance and emancipation : a response to Robin Blackburn / David Geggus
- Part three: Particular rights : the pursuit of happiness and freedom of speech
- My happiness, right or wrong? / Adam Phillips
- On being happy not to pursue happiness : a response to Adam Phillips / Patrick Mackie
- Toleration and calumny / Jeremy Waldron
- Rights persuasion : a response to Jeremy Waldron / Liora Lazarus
- Afterword : the self-evidence of human rights / Samuel Moyn.