The politics of human rights /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Verso, 1999. |
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| Description: | vii, 360 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4255526 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. The Politics of Human Rights
- Introduction: The Global and the Local in Human Rights
- 1. The Law of Peoples
- 2. The Rights of Man and Good Will
- 3. Private and Public Autonomy, Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty
- 4. Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality
- 5. Law, Solidarity and the Tasks of Philosophy
- 6. Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights
- 7. Majority Rule and Individual Rights
- 8. Are Human Rights Truly Universal?
- 9. Democracy and Human Rights under Different Conditions of Development
- 10. The Other's Rights
- 11. Human Rights in the 'New Europe'
- 12. Hobbes, 'Fearful Discourse', and the Basic Right to Refuse to Bear Arms during Military Service
- 13. The Legal Status of National Minorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- 14. Women's Rights as Human Rights
- Part II. Subversive Discourse
- 15. Political Theory and the Problem of Violence
- 16. Local and Global
- 17. Time of Consumption and the Consumption of Time
- 18. The Perfect Crime
- Part III. Inventory of Texts
- 19. 'A Painful Peace'
- 20. Critique and Analysis in Media Studies
- 21. Metaphor, Ontology and Scientific Truth
- Part IV. War in the Tribal Zone: Yugoslavia
- 22. Parallel Worlds
- 23. Speed Memories (III)
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
