Letters to the contrary : a curated history of the UNESCO human rights survey /

"This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights. Prominent mid-twentieth-century intellectuals and leaders--including Gandhi, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Arnold Schoenberg--engaged with the question of universal human rights...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goodale, Mark (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Colección:Stanford studies in human rights.
Temas:
United Nations. > General Assembly. > Universal Declaration of Human Rights > History > Sources.
Unesco > History > Sources.
Unesco.
Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee > Session
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)
Human rights > History > Sources.
LAW > International.
Human rights.
Völkerrecht
Menschenrecht
Rechtsfortbildung
Universalismus
Ost-West-Konflikt
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Samuel Moyn
  • History : UNESCO in the paradigmatic transition
  • Interpretations : From a "hollow sham" to a "plurality of cultural values"
  • Memorandum and questionnaire circulated by UNESCO on the theoretical bases of the rights of man
  • The grounds of an international declaration of human rights
  • Foreword and introduction to Human rights, comments and interpretations, UNESCO 1949
  • Foreword / Jacques Havet
  • Introduction / Jacques Maritain
  • Liberalism from the ashes
  • Beyond egotistic man : communist, socialist, and social democratic challenges
  • Rights in a sacred universe
  • The Universal declaration of human duties
  • The technological society of the future
  • Universal human rights in a colonial world
  • Human rights as history and practice
  • Specific freedoms
  • From repudiation to the play of fancy.

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