Reconstructing Human Rights
Title | Reconstructing Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Hoover |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0198782802 |
Reconstructing human rights -- Human rights and the ethics of uncertainty -- Human rights and the politics of uncertainty -- Human rights as situationist ethics -- Human rights as agonistic politics -- Human rights as democratizing ethos -- Conclusion
Human Rights as a Basis for reevaluating and reconstructing the law
Title | Human Rights as a Basis for reevaluating and reconstructing the law PDF eBook |
Author | Arnaud Hoc |
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Total Pages | 0 |
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Reconstructing Human Rights
Title | Reconstructing Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Hoover |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-05-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191085553 |
We live in a human-rights world. The language of human-rights claims and numerous human-rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to know how to judge this development. Scholars give us good reason to be both supportive and sceptical of the universal claims that human rights enable, alternatively suggesting that they are pillars of cross-cultural understanding of justice or the ideological justification of a violent and exclusionary global order. All too often, however, our evaluations of our human-rights world are not based on sustained consideration of their complex, ambiguous and often contradictory consequences. Reconstructing Human Rights argues that human rights are only as good as the ends they help us realise. We must attend to what ethical principles actually do in the world to know their value. So, for human rights we need to consider how the identity of humanity and the concept of rights shape our thinking, structure our political activity and contribute to social change. Reconstructing Human Rights defends human rights as a tool that should enable us to challenge political authority and established constellations of political membership by making new claims possible. Human rights mobilise the identity of humanity to make demands upon the terms of legitimate authority and challenges established political memberships. In this work, it is argued that this tool should be guided by a democratising ethos in pursuit of that enables claims for more democratic forms of politics and more inclusive political communities. While this work directly engages with debates about human rights in philosophy and political theory, in connecting our evaluations of the value of human rights to their worldly consequences, it will also be of interest to scholars considering human rights across disciplines, including Law, Sociology, and Anthropology.
A Theology of Reconstruction
Title | A Theology of Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Villa-Vicencio |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1992-08-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521426282 |
Behold, a new thing
Reconstructing Human Rights
Title | Reconstructing Human Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Derald Hoover |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Academic theses |
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Reconstructing Human Origins
Title | Reconstructing Human Origins PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn C. Conroy |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 8 |
Release | 2012-02-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393912892 |
Reconstructing Human Origins is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and popular paleoanthropology textbook available. Respected anthropologists Glenn Conroy and new coauthor Herman Pontzer use clear writing and abundant, carefully chosen illustrations to illuminate key concepts and help students get the most out of the course. This definitive paleoanthropology text has been fully revised to keep pace with all of the exciting recent developments in the field.
A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Title | A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | Laura F. Edwards |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2015-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107008794 |
This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.