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The Human Rights State : Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations /

The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and rights to all people in the world. In The Human Rights State, Benjamin Gregg proposes ways to decouple rights from citizenship, preserving the nation state, in modified form, and allowing human rights to become par...

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Autor principal: Gregg, Benjamin Greenwood, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. A Project for the Free Embrace of Human Rights
  • Part I. The Human Rights State: Politics by Metaphor
  • Chapter 1. Human Rights as Metaphor
  • Chapter 2. Human Rights in a Backpack
  • Chapter 3. The Body as Human Rights Boundary
  • Part II. The Human Rights State Through Persuasion, Not Coercion
  • Chapter 4. Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style
  • Chapter 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian Societies
  • Chapter 6. Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project
  • Part III. Defense of the Human Rights State in the Face of Challenges
  • Chapter 7. Human Rights Patriotism
  • Chapter 8. A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law
  • Chapter 9. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention
  • Coda: A Community of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.