Human rights : confronting myths and misunderstandings /

Human rights : confronting myths and misunderstandings /

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Author / Creator:	Fagan, Andrew, 1966-
Imprint:	Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2009.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 166 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Human rights -- Philosophy. Responsibility. Citizenship -- Moral and ethical aspects. Abuse of rights.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12241957

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Other authors / contributors:	Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISBN:	9781849802000 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-161) and index.
Summary:	This book offers both an introduction to and a critical analysis of enduring themes and issues in the contemporary theory and practice of human rights. The author argues that the moral authority and practical efficacy of human rights are adversely affected by a range of myths and misunderstandings - from claims regarding the moral status of human rights as an allegedly fully comprehensive moral doctrine to the view that the possession of rights is anti-ethical to recognising the importance of moral duties. The author also examines such issues as the claim that human rights can ultimately only be said to exist as legal phenomena and the claim that nation-states are inherently hostile to the spirit of human rights. Discussion cuts across academic boundaries in an attempt to defend human rights against those who have come to expect too much and those who expect too little from human rights.
Other form:	1848441614 (hbk.) 9781848441613 (hardback) 9781849809825 (pbk.)

Table of Contents:

1. The basis and scope of human rights
2. Human rights and law's domain
3. Universalism and 'the Other'
4. Globalisation, human rights and the modern nation-state
5. Democracy and human rights
6. Global economic inequalities and human rights
7. Accentuating the positive.